Networked Control Systems: A Model-Based Approach

Abstract

In this paper a class of networked control systems called Model-BasedNetworked Control Systems (MB-NCS) is considered. This control architectureuses an explicit model of the plant in order to reduce the networktraffic while attempting to prevent excessive performance degradation.MB-NCS can successfully address several important control issuesin an intuitive and transparent way. In this paper the main resultsof this approach are described with examples. Specifically, conditionsfor the stability of state and output feedback systems are derived.In addition, delay compensation, constant and time varying updatetimes, nonlinear plants, quantization, and performance measures areconsidered.