A Communication/Control Co-design Paradigm for Networked Control Systems

Abstract:

We propose a communication/control co-design paradigm to study networked
control systems. The essence of this new paradigm is to allow the
communication network to be jointly designed with the controller design.
In this talk, two different communication/control co-design approaches
would be discussed, i.e., the channel/controller co-design and
coding/control co-design. In the channel/controller co-design, we find the
minimum total channel capacity required for stabilizability given in terms
of the topological entropy of the plant. In the coding/control co-design,
the MIMO technology recently advanced in communication theory has been
utilized for information exchange. A necessary and sufficient condition
for the networked stabilizability is obtained given in terms of a
majorization relation.