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Design of networked control systems with bounded arbitrary time delays

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This paper is mainly concerned with the model predictive control (MPC) of networked control systems (NCSs) with uncertain time delay and data packets disorder. The network-induced time delay is described as bounded and arbitrary process. For the usual state feedback controller, by considering all the possibilities of delays, an augmented state space model of the closed-loop system, which characterizes all the delay cases, is obtained. The stability conditions are given according to the Lyapunov method based on this augmented model. The stability property is inherited in MPC which explicitly considers the physical constraints. A numerical example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed MPC.

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This work was supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China (Nos. 60934007 and 60874046), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos.CDJZR10175501 and CDJXS10171101), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in the University of China, the Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, the State Education Ministry of China, the Nature Science Foundation of Chongqing (No. 2008BB2049), and the Innovative Talent Training Project, the Third Stage of the “211 Project”, Chongqing University (No. S-09108).

Xiao-Ming Tang graduated from Panzhihua University, PRC in 2008. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in College of Automation, Chongqing University, PRC.

His research interests include model predictive control, fuzzy control and networked control systems.

Bao-Cang Ding received his M. Sc. degree from the China University of Petroleum, Beijing, PRC in 2000, and his Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, PRC in 2003. He is currently a professor in College of Automation, Chongqing University, PRC.

His research interests include model predictive control, fuzzy control, networked control systems and distributed control systems.

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Tang, XM., Ding, BC. Design of networked control systems with bounded arbitrary time delays. Int. J. Autom. Comput. 9, 182–190 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-012-0632-6

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