Feedback Control Goes Wireless: Guaranteed Stability over Low-Power Multi-Hop Networks

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Abstract

Closing feedback loops fast and over long distances is key to emerging applications; for example, robot motion control and swarm coordination require update intervals of tens of milliseconds. Low-power wireless technology is preferred for its low cost, small form factor, and flexibility, especially if the devices support multi-hop communication. So far, however, feedback control over wireless multi-hop networks has only been shown for update intervals on the order of seconds. This paper presents a wireless embedded system that tames imperfections impairing control performance (e.g., jitter and message loss), and a control design that exploits the essential properties of this system to provably guarantee closed-loop stability for physical processes with linear time-invariant dynamics. Using experiments on a cyber-physical testbed with 20 wireless nodes and multiple cart-pole systems, we are the first to demonstrate and evaluate feedback control and coordination over wireless multi-hop networks for update intervals of 20 to 50 milliseconds.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
Place of PublicationNew York, NY, USA
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York
Pages97–108
ISBN (print)9781450362856
Publication statusPublished - 16 Apr 2019
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 85066625716

Keywords

Research priority areas of TU Dresden

Keywords

  • synchronous transmissions, wireless control, closed-loop stability, cyber-physical systems, multi-hop networks, multi-agent systems