Guest Editorial Special Issue on Secure Control of Cyber-Physical Systems

The papers in this special section focus on inititives to security cyber-physical systems. The integration of computation, communication, and control units has led to the birth and rapid development of a new generation of engineering systems, the cyber-physical systems (CPSs), which have been increasingly used in fields ranging from aerospace, automobile, industrial process control to energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation, where secure operation is one of the key concerns. These CPSs are often distributed in nature with a hierarchical structure, and likely to be attacked due to diverse motivations, such as economic reasons (e.g., reducing or not paying electricity charge), or terrorism (e.g., threatening people by controlling electricity and other life-critical resources).