Co-design Approaches to Dependable Networked Control Systems

Contents

Foreword

Introduction and Problem Statement

I.1. Networked control systems and control design challenges

I.2. Control design: from continuous time to networked implementation

I.3. Timing parameter assignment

I.4. Control and task/message scheduling

I.5. Diagnosis and fault tolerance in NCS

I.6. Co-design approaches

I.7. Outline of the book

I.8. Bibliography

Chapter 1. Preliminary Notions and State of the Art

1.1. Overview

1.2. Preliminary notions on real-time scheduling

1.3. Control aware computing

1.4. Feedback-scheduling basics

1.5. Fault diagnosis of NCS with network-induced effects

1.6. Summary

1.7. Bibliography

Chapter 2. Computing-aware Control

2.1. Overview

2.2. Robust control w.r.t. computing and networking-induced latencies

2.3. Weakly hard constraints

2.4. LPV adaptive variable sampling

2.5. Summary

2.6. Bibliography

Chapter 3. QoC-aware Dynamic Network QoS Adaptation

3.1. Overview

3.2. Dynamic CAN message priority allocation according to the control application needs

3.3. Bandwidth allocation control for switched Ethernet networks

3.4. Conclusion

3.5. Bibliography

Chapter 4. Plant-state-based Feedback Scheduling

4.1. Overview

4.2. Adaptive scheduling and varying sampling robust control

4.3. MPC-based integrated control and scheduling

4.4. A convex optimization approach to feedback scheduling

4.5. Control and real-time scheduling co-design via a LPV approach

4.6. Summary

4.7. Bibliography

Chapter 5. Overload Management Through Selective Data Dropping

5.1. Introduction ...