The quest for autonomy. Are we there yet? Are CPS a way to build autonomous systems?

Summary form only given. Achieving autonomy has been a dream for many years. The term autonomous system has had different meanings depending on who and when it was used. Attempts to build autonomous vehicles by major corporations and grand challenges by government funding agencies have captured the public´s imagination. How much closer are today to this dream than we were 25 years ago?The issues surrounding autonomy together with the needed properties that make a system autonomous will be discussed and put in context. How do we go about realizing these properties in a safe, secure manner, to obtain a resilient system that keeps performing well over the lifetime of the control system? Could CPS provide an approach towards building autonomous systems? How would autonomous control architectures look like? Solutions to some problems will be proposed. Concrete approaches, that use CPS and energy like concepts such as passivity/dissipativity to preserve properties will be briefly discussed.