Feedback Control Goes Wireless: Guaranteed Stability over Low-Power Multi-Hop Networks
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Contributors
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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems |
Place of Publication | New York, NY, USA |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York |
Pages | 97–108 |
ISBN (print) | 9781450362856 |
Publication status | Published - 16 Apr 2019 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
Scopus | 85066625716 |
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Keywords
Research priority areas of TU Dresden
Keywords
- synchronous transmissions, wireless control, closed-loop stability, cyber-physical systems, multi-hop networks, multi-agent systems