Scaling beyond Bandwidth Limitations: Wireless Control with Stability Guarantees under Overload
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Abstract
An important class of cyber-physical systems relies on multiple agents that jointly perform a task by coordinating their actions over a wireless network. Examples include self-driving cars in intelligent transportation and production robots in smart manufacturing. However, the scalability of existing control-over-wireless solutions is limited as they cannot resolve overload situations in which the communication demand exceeds the available bandwidth. This article presents a novel co-design of distributed control and wireless communication that overcomes this limitation by dynamically allocating the available bandwidth to agents with the greatest need to communicate. Experiments on a real cyber-physical testbed with 20 agents, each consisting of a low-power wireless embedded device and a cart-pole system, demonstrate that our solution achieves significantly better control performance under overload than the state of the art. We further prove that our co-design guarantees closed-loop stability for physical systems with stochastic linear time-invariant dynamics.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 20 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Journal | ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2022 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| dblp | journals/tcps/MagerBHTZ22 |
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| Mendeley | 33e6fc94-67f0-34f5-8ee1-bc8fb19d1b5c |
| Scopus | 85141056252 |
Keywords
Keywords
- Wireless control, cyber-physical systems, multi-hop networks, multi-agent systems, closed-loop stability, network overload