Co-design Approaches to Dependable Networked Control Systems

Glossary and Acronyms

CAN Controller Area Network (ISO 11898), a serial bus using prioritized messages, grounded in automotive applications.

COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf.

CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection, a medium access protocol for Ethernet (IEEE 802.3).

DBP Distance Based Priority, a dynamic priority assignment scheme where the priority of a task is the function of the distance to a failure state defined by the (m, k)-firm model.

DTTS Discrete Time Switched System.

EDF Earliest Deadline First, a scheduling policy which dynamically assign the highest priority to the task with the earliest deadline.

FDI Fault Detection and Isolation.

FIF Fault Isolation Filter.

FIFO First In, First Out.

FTC Fault Tolerant Control.

LFT Linear Fractional Transform.

LMI Linear Matrix Inequality.

LQ Linear Quadratic, a state feedback controller for linear systems minimizing a quadratic criterion involving the system’s state and control vectors.

LQG Linear Quadratic Gaussian, a LQ controller associated with a Kalman estimator when the state and measurements of the system are disturbed by additive white Gaussian noise.

LPV Linear Parameter Varying, methods to control linear, systems taking into account the variations of some parameters of the plant.

LTI related to Linear Time Invariant systems.

MIMO a dynamic system with Multiple Inputs, Multiple Outputs.

(m,k)-firm a scheduling policy enforcing the completion of at least m tasks execution (or message transmission) every ...