Coordination Control of Distributed Systems

ISBN-13: 9783319104065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 398 str.

Jan H. Van Schuppen; Tiziano Villa

Opis

This book describes how control of distributed systems can be advanced by an integration of control, communication, and computation. The global control objectives are met by judicious combinations of local and nonlocal observations taking advantage of various forms of communication exchanges between distributed controllers. Control architectures are considered according to increasing degrees of cooperation of local controllers: fully distributed or decentralized control, control with communication between controllers, coordination control, and multilevel control. The book covers also topics bridging computer science, communication, and control, like communication for control of networks, average consensus for distributed systems, and modeling and verification of discrete and of hybrid systems.Examples and case studies are introduced in the first part of the text and developed throughout the book. They include:

• control of underwater vehicles,
• automated-guided vehicles on a container terminal,
• control of a printer as a complex machine, and
• control of an electric power system.

The book is composed of short essays each within eight pages, including suggestions and references for further research and reading.By reading the essays collected in the book Coordination Control of Distributed Systems, graduate students and post-docs will be introduced to the research frontiers in control of decentralized and of distributed systems. Control theorists and practitioners with backgrounds in electrical, mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering will find in the book information and inspiration to transfer to their fields of interest the state-of-art in coordination control.

Spis treści

Part I Case Studies in Control of Distributed Systems.- C4C Case Studies.- A Coordination Approach to Formation Flying for AUVs.- Leader–Follower Coordination Control for Urban Traffic.- Prediction of Traffic Flow in a Road Network.- Zone-Control-Based Traffic Control of Automated Guided Vehicles.- Coordination Control of Complex Machines.- Coordinated Model Predictive Control for Avoiding Voltage Collapse in an Electric Power Transmission Net.- Part II Architectures of Distributed Systems and Their Control.- System Architectures of Distributed and of Multilevel Systems.- Control Architectures.- Part III Coordination Control: What is Coordination Control.- Introduction to Coordinated Linear Systems.- Coordinated Linear Systems.- Control for Coordination of Linear Systems.- LQ Optimal Control for Coordinated Linear Systems.- Supervisory Control of Discrete-Event Systems.- Coordination of Distributed Discrete-Event Systems.- Part IV Distributed Control.- Distributed Control of Manufacturing Networks: Machines and Production Lines with Unbounded Buffers.- Distributed Control of Manufacturing Networks: lines with Bounded Buffers and Re-Entrant Machines.- What is Team Theory?.- Team Theory and Information Structures of Stochastic Differential Decentralized Decision Systems.- Signaling of Information.- Part V Distributed Control with Communication.- What is Distributed Control with Communication between Controllers.- Communication Constrainst in Control and Observation of Distributed Systems.- Distributed State Estimation with Communication of Observations.- Control of the Observation Stream of a Gaussian System with an Energy Constraint for Communication.- Information Structures.- Common and Private Informaiton in Control of Decentralized Systems.- Control Theory with Information Structures.- Part VI Hierarchical Control.- Part VII: Communication and Control of Distributed Systems.- Directed Information on Abstract Spaces: Properties and Extremum Problems.- Information Nonanticipative Rate Distortion Function and Its Applications.- Symbol-by-Symbol Joint Source-Changel Coding for Memory Sources with Applications to Real-Time Communication and Control.- Part VIII Informatics of Distributed Systems.- Formal Verification Applied to Robotic Surgery.- A SystemC/MATLAB® Co-Simulation Tool for Networked Control Systems.- Model Predictive Controllers over Differential Services Packet Networks.- An Introduction to the Verification of Hybrid Systems Using ARIADNE.- Computing Reachable Sets of Differential Inclusions.- Modeling Objects Moving in a Complex Environment with World Automata.- Distributed Average Consensus in Digraphs.- Part IX Research Program.- Research Program for Control of Distributed and of Multilevel Systems.

O autorze

The book is an edited collection. The background of the authors of the book includes:
control engineering, control theory, mathematics, communication networks, informatics, marine engineering, traffic engineering, engineering of automated vehicles, control of printers, etc. Jan H. van Schuppen is affiliated as professor emeritus with the Department of Mathematics of Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands where he still teaches and advises and is further active with his consulting company Van Schuppen Control Research in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since his retirement in October 2012.

His research interests include: control of decentralized and distributed systems, control of hybrid systems, control of discrete-event systems, realization, system identification, control of motorway networks and modeling and identification of biochemical reaction networks.
He is Advising Editor of the journal Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems and in the period 2008--2011 was coordinator of the project Control for coordination of distributed systems which was financially supported by the European Commission.