Time-and event-driven communication process for networked control systems: A survey

Copyright © 2014 Lei Zou et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.In recent years, theoretical and practical research topics on networked control systems (NCSs) have gained an increasing interest from many researchers in a variety of disciplines owing to the extensive applications of NCSs in practice. In particular, an urgent need has arisen to understand the effects of communication processes on system performances. Sampling and protocol are two fundamental aspects of a communication process which have attracted a great deal of research attention. Most research focus has been on the analysis and control of dynamical behaviors under certain sampling procedures and communication protocols. In this paper, we aim to survey some recent advances on the analysis and synthesis issues of NCSs with different sampling procedures (time-and event-driven sampling) and protocols (static and dynamic protocols). First, these sampling procedures and protocols are introduced in detail according to their engineering backgrounds as well as dynamic natures. Then, the developments of the stabilization, control, and filtering problems are systematically reviewed and discussed in great detail. Finally, we conclude the paper by outlining future research challenges for analysis and synthesis problems of NCSs with different communication processes.This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61329301, 61374127, and 61374010, the Royal Society of the UK, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany

Quantized passive filtering for switched delayed neural networks

The issue of quantized passive filtering for switched delayed neural networks with noise interference is studied in this paper. Both arbitrary and semi-Markov switching rules are taken into account. By choosing Lyapunov functionals and applying several inequality techniques, sufficient conditions are proposed to ensure the filter error system to be not only exponentially stable, but also exponentially passive from the noise interference to the output error. The gain matrix for the proposed quantized passive filter is able to be determined through the feasible solution of linear matrix inequalities, which are computationally tractable with the help of some popular convex optimization tools. Finally, two numerical examples are given to illustrate the usefulness of the quantized passive filter design methods

Event-Based H∞ filter design for a class of nonlinear time-varying systems with fading channels and multiplicative noises

In this paper, a general event-triggered framework is developed to deal with the finite-horizon H∞ filtering problem for discrete time-varying systems with fading channels, randomly occurring nonlinearities and multiplicative noises. An event indicator variable is constructed and the corresponding event-triggered scheme is proposed. Such a scheme is based on the relative error with respect to the measurement signal in order to determine whether the measurement output should be transmitted to the filter or not. The fading channels are described by modified stochastic Rice fading models. Some uncorrelated random variables are introduced, respectively, to govern the phenomena of state-multiplicative noises, randomly occurring nonlinearities as well as fading measurements. The purpose of the addressed problem is to design a set of time-varying filter such that the influence from the exogenous disturbances onto the filtering errors is attenuated at the given level quantified by a H∞ norm in the mean-square sense. By utilizing stochastic analysis techniques, sufficient conditions are established to ensure that the dynamic system under consideration satisfies the H∞ filtering performance constraint, and then a recursive linear matrix inequality (RLMI) approach is employed to design the desired filter gains. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed filter design scheme

Weight Try-Once-Discard Protocol-Based L_2 L_infinity State Estimation for Markovian Jumping Neural Networks with Partially Known Transition Probabilities

It was the L_2 L_infinity performance index that for the first time is initiated into the discussion on state estimation of delayed MJNNs with with partially known transition probabilities, which provides a more general promotion for the estimation error.The WTOD protocol is adopted to dispatch the sensor nodes so as to effectively alleviate the updating frequency of output signals. The hybrid effects of the time delays, Markov chain, and protocol parameters are apparently reflected in the co-designed estimator which can be solved by a combination of comprehensive matrix inequalities

Protocol-based state estimation for delayed Markovian jumping neural networks

National Natural Science Foundation of China; the PetroChina Innovation Foundation; the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation; the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China; the Northeast Petroleum University Innovation Foundation For Postgraduate; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of German

Genetic-Algorithm-Assisted Sliding-Mode Control for Networked State-Saturated Systems over Hidden Markov Fading Channels

National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61903143, 61933007, 61873058, 61873148, 61673174 and 61773162; Research Fund for the Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province of China; Shanghai Sailing Program of China under Grant 19YF1412100; 111 Project of China under Grant B17017; Royal Society of the U.K.; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany

Finite-Time State Estimation for Delayed Neural Networks with Redundant Delayed Channels

10.13039/501100001809-National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Number: 61703245 and 61873148); 10.13039/501100010029-Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province of China; 10.13039/501100002858-China Post-Doctoral Science Foundation (Grant Number: 2016M600547); Qingdao Post-Doctoral Applied Research Project (Grant Number: 2016117); Post-Doctoral Special Innovation Foundation of Shandong (Grant Number: 201701015); 10.13039/501100000288-Royal Society of the U.K.; 10.13039/100005156-Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of German

Multi-sensor multi-rate fusion estimation for networked systems: Advances and perspectives

National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 62103095, 61873058, 61873148 and 61933007; AHPU Youth Top-notch Talent Support Program of China under Grant 2018BJRC009; Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province of China under Grant 2108085MA07; Royal Society of the UK; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany

Communication-protocol-based analysis and synthesis of networked systems: progress, prospects and challenges

In recent years, the communication-protocol-based synthesis and analysis issues have gained substantial research interest owing mainly to their significance in networked systems. In this work, we survey the control and filtering problems of networked systems under the effects induced by communication protocols. First, we introduce the engineering background of networked systems as well as the theoretical frameworks established to deal with the communication-protocol-based analysis and synthesis problems. Then, recent advances (especially the latest results) are reviewed on the stability analysis issue subject to protocol scheduling. Subsequently, the particular effort is devoted to presenting the latest progress on various communication-protocol-based control and filtering problems according to the characteristics of networked systems (e.g. time-varying nature, random behaviours, types of parameter uncertainties, and kinds of distributed structure). After that, we provide a systematic review of the communication-protocol-based fault diagnosis problems. Finally, some research challenges of communication-protocol-based control and filtering problems are outlined for future research