When designing a distributed control system, the system designer has a choice in how to connect the different units through communication channels. In practice, noiseless and noisy channels may coexist. Using the standard toy example of scalar stabilization, this paper shows how a small amount of noiseless feedback can perform a “supervisory” role and thereby boost the effectiveness of noisy fe...

In this paper, we propose a framework for real time monitoring and diagnosis of automated vehicles in an IVHS. The supervisory control methodology proposed here is concerned with fault detection, fault isolation, and control reconfiguration of the many sensors, actuators and controllers that are used in the control process. This supervisory control architecture operates at two levels of the AVC...

The CS (Control System) framework is object-oriented, multi-threaded, event-driven, distributed and provides SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) functionality [1]. Today, CS is in production at various facilities SHIPTRAP [2], ISOLTRAP [3,4], LEBIT [5] and at another atomic physics experiment at GSI [6]. At PHELIX [7] and REXTRAP [8], the commissioning of CS based systems is in the...

Priority access of renewable resources such as offshore wind recommended by European energy directives, new market models and trading the electric energy among countries lead to new requirements on the operation and expansion of transmission grids. Since AC grid expansions are limited by legislative issues and long distance transmission capacity, there is a considerable attention drawn to appli...