Designing Ethical Cyber-Physical Industrial Systems

Morals I didn’t understand why anyone would talk about ethics for robots: it’s a machine or group of machines controlled by 1s and 0s. It just didn’t click until I read the Aeon article [3].Smart Autonomous Robots, with the ability to learn, need to be guided to make desirable choices. In other words, SARs need … Continue reading Designing Ethical Cyber-Physical Industrial Systems

Sexual Assault in the Time of the Internet of Things

Content Advisory While the focus of this paper is technology, specifically the security of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, it touches on technology’s relationship to sexual and domestic abuse and assault. There are no sexually explicit descriptions and discussion is kept to legal, technical or social implications of the content. Disclaimer As I started researching … Continue reading Sexual Assault in the Time of the Internet of Things

Critial Review: Robust Cyber-Physical Systems Concepts, Models and Implementations

Global Optimal Solution Arrival of a global optimal solution for a Cyber-Physical System (CPS) seems to share many commonalities with distributed decision making strategies taught in the business world. Information flows in a bi-directional fashion gaining in abstraction as it moves upwards in the chain and specificity as it moves downward. The end goal of … Continue reading Critial Review: Robust Cyber-Physical Systems Concepts, Models and Implementations