On general systems with network-enhanced complexities

In recent years, the study of networked control systems (NCSs) has gradually become an active research area due to the advantages of using networked media in many aspects such as the ease of maintenance and installation, the large flexibility and the low cost. It is well known that the devices in networks are mutually connected via communication cables that are of limited capacity. Therefore, some network-induced phenomena have inevitably emerged in the areas of signal processing and control engineering. These phenomena include, but are not limited to, network-induced communication delays, missing data, signal quantization, saturations, and channel fading. It is of great importance to understand how these phenomena influence the closed-loop stability and performance properties

Passification-based decentralized adaptive synchronization of dynamical networks with time-varying delays

This paper is aimed at application of the passification based adaptive control to decentralized synchronization of dynamical networks. We consider Lurie type systems with hyper-minimum-phase linear parts and two types of nonlinearities: Lipschitz and matched. The network is assumed to have both instant and delayed time-varying interconnections. Agent model may also include delays. Based on the speed-gradient method decentralized adaptive controllers are derived, i.e. each controller measures only the output of the node it controls. Synchronization conditions for disturbance free networks and ultimate boundedness conditions for networks with disturbances are formulated. The proofs are based on Passification lemma in combination with Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals technique. Numerical examples for the networks of 4 and 100 interconnected Chua systems are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach

On general systems with randomly occurring incomplete information

In the system and control community, the incomplete information is generally regarded as the results of (1) our limited knowledge in modelling real-world systems; and (2) the physical constraints on the devices for collecting, transmitting, storing and processing information. In terms of system modelling, the incomplete information typically includes the parameter uncertainties and norm-bounded non-linearities that occur with certain bounds. As for the physical constraints, two well-known examples are the actuator/sensor saturation caused by the limited power/altitude of the devices as well as the signal quantization caused by limited bandwidth for signal propagation

Networked systems with incomplete information

Copyright © 2015 Zidong Wang 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 this special issue, we have solicited submissions from electrical engineers, control engineers, computer scientists, and mathematicians. After a rigorous peer review process, 18 papers have been selected that provide overviews, solutions, or early promises, to manage, analyse, and interpret dynamical behaviours of networked systems. These papers have covered both the theoretical and practical aspects of networked system with incomplete information in the broad areas of dynamical systems, mathematics, statistics, operational research, and engineering

Optimized state estimation for nonlinear dynamical networks subject to fading measurements and stochastic coupling strength: An event-triggered communication mechanism

summary:This paper is concerned with the design of event-based state estimation algorithm for nonlinear complex networks with fading measurements and stochastic coupling strength. The event-based communication protocol is employed to save energy and enhance the network transmission efficiency, where the changeable event-triggered threshold is adopted to adjust the data transmission frequency. The phenomenon of fading measurements is described by a series of random variables obeying certain probability distribution. The aim of the paper is to propose a new recursive event-based state estimation strategy such that, for the admissible linearization error, fading measurements and stochastic coupling strength, a minimum upper bound of estimation error covariance is given by designing the estimator gain. Furthermore, the monotonicity relationship between the trace of the upper bound of estimation error covariance and the fading probability is pointed out from the theoretical aspect. Finally, a simulation example is used to show the effectiveness of developed state estimation algorithm