Today, the combination of various enabling technologies allows us to build and operate very complex mechatronic devices, intelligent production systems (system of systems), and autonomous machines never seen before. These advances necessarily involve the latest results of systems and control theory, nonlinear optimization, knowledge representations, and neurocomputing as well as the modern computational and telecommunication infrastructure (cloud technologies, large bandwidth, low-latency networks, etc.). Such systems over a certain level of complexity are often referred to as Cyber Physical Systems (CPS).

Cyber Physical Control as a multidisciplinary research field investigates the applications of existing theories and methodologies in the context of regulating CPS at different levels from low-level sensing and actuation to system-level orchestration.

We invite authors to contribute original research papers as well as review articles that gain the interest of the interdisciplinary research community. Potential authors from academia and industries are welcome to submit articles.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Modeling and multiobjective control of complex nonlinear systems
• Complexity reduction and complexity-accuracy trade-off
• Orchestration of Cyber Physical Production Systems
• Decentralized control of distributed systems
• Combination of machine learning and analytical knowledge in control systems
• Machine learning methods in Cyber Physical Systems
• Handling time-delay in networked control systems
• Mathematical modeling of human behavior in human-machine systems