ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a high-level description of cyber-physical systems (CPS) so as to help readers better understand the emerging and promising multi-disciplinary concept, and discusses the cybersecurity issues of CPSs. It introduces the concept and presents a big picture of CPSs, followed by several examples of identified research areas, including resource allocation, transmission and management, energy control, and model-based software design. There are four common security goals in CPSs: confidentiality, integrity, availability, and authenticity. Examples of CPSs are smart grids, robots, and self-driving vehicles. Under the modified CPS model, multiple CPS services may communicate with each other through a central cloud platform. There are numerous examples of attacks over CPSs in the real world, some of which can cause severe damage to the aimed physical processes. The chapter examines a novel attack compensator framework which can stabilize the CPS with a nearly desired system performance.
