Networked control systems: a survey of trends and techniques

By Xianming Zhang, Qing-Long Han, Xiaohua Ge, Derui Ding, Lei Ding, Dong Yue, Chen Peng. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2020

838 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Networked control systems are spatially distributed systems in which the communication between sensors, actuators, and controllers occurs through a shared band-limited digital communication network. Several advantages of the network architectures include reduced system wiring, plug and play devices, increased system agility, and ease of system diagnosis and maintenance. Consequently, networked control is the current trend for industrial automation and has ever-increasing applications in a wide range of areas, such as smart grids, manufacturing systems, process control, automobiles, automated highway systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles. The modelling, analysis, and control of networked control systems have received considerable attention in the last two decades. The ‘ control over networks ’ is one of the key research directions for networked control systems. This paper aims at presenting a survey of trends and techniques in networked control systems from the perspective of ‘ control over networks ’ , providing a snapshot of five control issues: sampled-data control, quantization control, networked control, event-triggered control, and security control. Some challenging issues are suggested to direct the future research.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Qing-Long Han
2. Xianming Zhang
3. Xiaohua Ge
4. Lei Ding
5. Derui Ding
6. Jun Wang
7. Zhouhua Peng
8. Yu-Long Wang

In Control and Systems Engineering

1. Qing-Long Han
2. Xiaohua Ge
3. Xianming Zhang
4. Lei Ding
5. Derui Ding
6. Jun Wang
7. Zhouhua Peng
8. Dan Wang

Citations in the corpus

• An Overview of Recent Advances in Coordinated Control of Multiple Autonomous Surface Vehicles (2021, background): “of areas, such as manufacturing systems, process control systems, smart grids, automobile and automated highway systems [112].”
• Dynamic Event-Triggered Distributed Coordination Control and its Applications: A Survey of Trends and Techniques (2020, background): “Since then, a considerable amount of research on the ETSM has yet been carried out for various networked systems, see survey papers [2]–[4] on single-plant-based networked systems, [5] on distributed sensor networks, and [6]–[9] on MASs.”
• Secure State Estimation and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems: A Survey (2021, background): “Therefore, some existing analysis and design approaches for networked control systems [37], [98] must be revaluated in CPSs.”