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A Simple Distributed Method For Control Over Wireless Networks, Miroslav Pajic, Shreyas Sundaram, George Pappas, Rahul Mangharam
A Simple Distributed Method For Control Over Wireless Networks, Miroslav Pajic, Shreyas Sundaram, George Pappas, Rahul Mangharam
Rahul Mangharam
We present a distributed scheme used for control over wireless networks. In our previous work, we introduced the concept of a Wireless Control Network (WCN), where the network itself, with no centralized node, acts as the controller. In this work, we show how the WCN can be modified to include observer style updates which substantially improves robustness of the closed-loop system to link failures. In addition, we analyze how the WCN simplifies extraction of the communication and computation schedules and enables system compositionality and scalability.
The Wireless Control Network: A New Approach For Control Over Networks, Miroslav Pajic, Shreyas Sundaram, George Pappas, Rahul Mangharam
The Wireless Control Network: A New Approach For Control Over Networks, Miroslav Pajic, Shreyas Sundaram, George Pappas, Rahul Mangharam
Rahul Mangharam
We present a method to stabilize a plant with a network of resource constrained wireless nodes. As opposed to traditional networked control schemes where the nodes simply route information to and from a dedicated controller (perhaps performing some encoding along the way), our approach treats the network itself as the controller. Specifically, we formulate a strategy for each node in the network to follow, where at each time-step, each node updates its internal state to be a linear combination of the states of the nodes in its neighborhood. We show that this causes the entire network to behave as a …
Closing The Loop: A Simple Distributed Method For Control Over Wireless Networks, Miroslav Pajic, Shreyas Sundaram, Jerome Le Ny, George J. Pappas, Rahul Mangharam
Closing The Loop: A Simple Distributed Method For Control Over Wireless Networks, Miroslav Pajic, Shreyas Sundaram, Jerome Le Ny, George J. Pappas, Rahul Mangharam
Rahul Mangharam
We present a distributed scheme used for control over a network of wireless nodes. As opposed to traditional networked control schemes where the nodes simply route information to and from a dedicated controller (perhaps performing some encoding along the way), our approach, Wireless Control Network (WCN), treats the network itself as the controller. In other words, the computation of the control law is done in a fully distributed way inside the network. We extend the basic WCN strategy, where at each time-step, each node updates its internal state to be a linear combination of the states of the nodes in …
Topological Conditions For Wireless Control Networks, Miroslav Pajic, Shreyas Sundaram, George J. Pappas, Rahul Mangharam
Topological Conditions For Wireless Control Networks, Miroslav Pajic, Shreyas Sundaram, George J. Pappas, Rahul Mangharam
Rahul Mangharam
We study the problem of stabilizing a linear system over a wireless control network. We propose a scheme where each wireless node maintains a scalar state, and periodically updates it as a linear combination of neighboring plant outputs and node states. We make connections to decentralized fixed modes and structured system theory to provide conditions on the network topology that allow the system to be stabilized. Our analysis provides the minimal number of feedback edges that have to be introduced to stabilize the system over a network, and shows that as long as the network connectivity is larger than the …