iCPS-Car: An Intelligent Cyber-physical System for Smart Automobiles

Automobiles are becoming increasingly important in our daily life. However, people usually need to cost lots of efforts and time to get their required services. On one hand, an automobile itself consists of many physical processes to achieve its traditional functionality, on the other hand, it is being integrated with more and more sensors and actuators, which makes it a typical cyber-physical system. In order to provide friendly and human-centric services for users, we proposed the Intelligent Cyber-Physical System for automobiles (iCPS-Car) for automobiles. iCPS-Car integrates people, cars and cyber spaces together and provides natural interaction manners, and personalized and continuous services. A prototype, along with several applications such as remote surveillance, gesture-based control, media migration, was built and evaluated to verify the efficiency of iCPS-Car. The prototype car has been exhibited on Beijing Auto 2012.