Special Report
Global Trends in CPS Research and the Situation in Japan
2017 Volume 32 Issue 3 Pages 251-265
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2017 Volume 32 Issue 3 Pages 251-265
CPS (Cyber-Physical System) is expected to be an initiator of next-generation innovation, and it's elemental and practical researches are advanced mainly in Europe and the United States. Japanese government's Society 5.0 program needs CPS technologies as its base, but the definition of CPS seems different from other countries. In this paper the history of CPS is studied carefully from its origins to the current global trends.
The global trends of CPS lead by Europe and the United States are 1) illustrated as next-generation embedded systems 2) cross-sectoral and common basic technologies 3) streamlined research schema have been developed from elemental to practical 4) elemental researches are multi-disciplinary.
It is difficult to find such a direction in Japanese policy, although its focuses are on IoT, AI, Big Data. The reasons are analyzed and some issues are pointed out in this paper.
