Classification of Cyber-Physical Systems Developments: Proposition of an Analysis Framework

Cyber-physical systems have encountered a huge success in the past decade in several scientific communities. The main attraction of the concept relies in the fact that it encompasses many scientific topics that were distinct before. The downside is the lack of readability of the current developments about cyber-physical systems. This work intends to introduce an analysis framework able to classify the developments. An extensive study of literature enabled to extract four major criteria that are to be used in the framework: cognitive capabilities, application domain, interaction with humans and network technologies. Several examples of literature are used to illustrate the use of the framework.