Limited communication control

✍ Scribed by Dimitris Hristu; Kristi Morgansen

• Book ID: 104301277
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 220 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-6911
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-6911(99)00020-1

✦ Synopsis

This work in limited communication control is directed towards bringing together classical control theory and communication theoretical issues that are of practical importance in the design of control systems. It is common to "decouple" the communication aspects from the underlying dynamics of a system, as this simpliÿes the analysis and generally works well for classical models. However, in situations where a single decision maker controls many subsystems over a communication channel of a ÿnite capacity, the computation of control signals and their transmission to each system may take signiÿcant amounts of time. To address such cases, we consider a class of discrete-time models that jointly optimize over control and communication goals. Real-world examples where these models play a role include remotely controlled unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs), planetary rovers, arrays of microactuators and power control in mobile communication.