Periodic Event-Triggered Sampling and Dual-Rate Control for a Wireless Networked Control System With Applications to UAVs

© 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permissíon from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertisíng or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works."[EN] In this paper, periodic event-triggered sampling and dual-rate control techniques are integrated in a wireless networked control system (WNCS), where time-varying network-induced delays and packet disorder are present. Compared to the conventional time-triggered sampling paradigm, the control solution is able to considerably reduce network utilization (number of transmissions), while retaining a satisfactory control performance. Stability for the proposed WNCS is ensured using linear matrix inequalities. Simulation results show the main benefits of the control approach, which are experimentally validated by means of an unmanned-aerial-vehicle-based test-bed platform.This work was supported in part by the European Commission as part of Project H2020-SEC-2016-2017-Topic: SEC-20-BES-2016 (Id: 740736)-"C2 Advanced Multi-domain Environment and Live Observation Technologies," in part by the European Regional Development Fund as part of OPZuid 2014-2020 under the Drone Safety Cluster project, in part by the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme under the VICI Grant "Wireless control systems: A new frontier in automation" (No. 11382) awarded by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Applied and Engineering Sciences, and in part by the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Spain, under Project FPU15/02008.Cuenca, Á.; Antunes, D.; Castillo-Frasquet, A.; García Gil, PJ.; Asadi Khashooei, B.; Heemels, W. (2019). Periodic Event-Triggered Sampling and Dual-Rate Control for a Wireless Networked Control System With Applications to UAVs. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 66(4):3157-3166. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2018.2850018S3157316666

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