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Feedback control with scheduled communication sequences and random delays

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This paper establishes an approach to co-design of an output feedback controller and a channel-access managing policy for networked control systems (NCSs) where channel limitations and network-induced delays are present at both sides of the system. In particular, communication sequences and controller co-design conditions for linear NCSs with bounded disturbance are derived in the framework of hybrid control and given in terms of difference linear matrix inequality (DLMI) and difference matrix equation (DME). The results are extended to NCSs with Gaussian noises and random delays that are independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) and Markovian, with corresponding results given in the sense of stochastic stability. Numerical examples have shown the usefulness of the proposed methods.

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Recommended by Editorial Board member Poo Gyeon Park under the direction of Editor Young Il Lee. This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 60974013 and Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation under grant 111066. This work is supported by “Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under projects 2009JC11 and 2009QN120”.

Ge Guo received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Control Theory and Engineering from Northeastern University, respectively in 1994 and 1998. Then he joined Lanzhou University of Technology and served as dean of the Department of Electric Engineering. Since May 2005, he has been a professor in Dalian Maritime University. His research interests include networked control systems, vehicle and mobile robot control.

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Guo, G. Feedback control with scheduled communication sequences and random delays. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 8, 1342–1348 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-010-0621-x

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