– The deÞning characteristic of a networked control system (NCS) is having a feedback loop that passes through a local area computer network. Our two-step design approach includes using standard control methodologies and choosing the network protocol and bandwidth in order to ensure important closed-loop properties are preserved when a computer network is inserted into the feedback loop. For su...

Networked control systems (NCS), such as the smart power grid, implement feedback control loops by connecting distributed sensors and actuators to a remote controller over a communication network. In order to avoid the costly and timeconsuming installation of dedicated networks, NCS can bene t from utilizing readily available IP networks such as the Internet. However, as control systems are typ...

This paper provides a general framework of Networked Control Systems. An Internet based NCS is simulated and TCP/IP communication issue of data streams in Networked Control Systems (NCS) is evaluated. The network is simulated with the ns-2 package, a widespread state-of-the-art open-source network simulator package for studying packet dynamics in

Time varying network induced delays in networked control systems (NCS) are known for degrading control system’s quality of performance (QoP) and causing stability problems. In literature, a control method employing modeling of communication delays as probability distribution, proves to be a better method. This paper focuses on modeling of network induced delays as probability distribution. CAN ...

In this paper, we discuss real-time control of networked control systems (NCSs) and practical issues in the choice of the communication networks for this purpose. An appropriate integration of control systems, real-time environments, and network communication systems allows the optimization of the quality-of-control (QoC) in NCSs. We compare several prevailing network types that may be used in ...

NYNET (ATM wide-area network testbed in New York state) Communication System (NCS) is a multithreaded message-passing tool developed at Syracuse University that provides low-latency and high-throughput communication services over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)-based highperformance distributed computing (HPDC) environments. NCS provides exible and scalable group communication services based o...

Computer control systems are commonly designed in such way that observations are sampled equidistantly in time (time-triggered sampling). Networked control systems (NCS) are a special class of computer controlled systems, where sensors, controllers and actuators are spatially distributed and are only able to exchange information over a digital communication network. Due to the fact that these c...

Feedback control systems wherein the control loops are closed through a real-time network are called networked control systems (NCSs). The insertion of the communication network in the feedback control loop makes the analysis and design of an NCS complex. Driving our research effort into NCSs is the point of view that the design of both the communication protocols and the interacting controlled...