CAREER: Distributed control of dynamic systems using a wireless communcation medium: two new paradigms

在当今大多数大型工程企业中，包括工业和运输部门，控制和通信之间的相互作用是普遍存在的。本文提出了一个以设计具有无线通信能力的分布式控制系统为中心，具有紧密耦合的研究和教学组件的方案。与有线网络相比，无线通信允许移动性，简化重新配置并降低部署成本。然而，大多数移动无线通信技术具有干扰、衰落和功率限制的特点。这些特性使得这种网络化控制系统的分析和设计变得更加困难。本提案的研究计划引入了两种新的范式。第一个范例，表示为网络预览控制，指定了一个由空间分布的传感器和一个控制器组成的无线网络的框架。给定扰动场，网络化预瞄控制的目的是利用遥感器向控制器提供扰动预瞄信息。第二个范例涉及移动和静态代理混合的协作控制策略的设计，其目标是实现预先指定的通信目标。智力优势：最重要的技术贡献是设计具有干扰、衰落和功率限制的通信组件的控制系统，需要控制理论、网络信息理论和网络技术的更深层次融合。更广泛的影响：PI打算将该提案的结果用于设计更高效的交通系统。该提案包括一个为期五年的本科实习计划，旨在增加在工业和学术层面从事工程职业的国内学生的数量，特别是女性和少数民族。

ECCS-0644764PI: MartinsABSTRACT The interplay between control and communications is pervasive in most of today's large scale engineering enterprises, including the industrial and transportation sectors. This proposal puts forward a program, with tightly coupled research and educational components, centered on the design of distributed control systems with wireless communication capabilities. In contrast to wire-line networks, wireless communications allows mobility, streamlines re-configuration and reduces deployment costs. However, most mobile wireless communication technologies feature interference, fading and power constraints. These attributes make the analysis and the design of such networked control systems significantly more difficult. This proposal's research plan introduces two new paradigms. The first paradigm, denoted as networked preview control, specifies a framework consisting of a wireless network of spatially-distributed sensors and one controller. Given a disturbance field, networked preview control aims at using the remote sensors to provide the controller with disturbance preview information. The second paradigm concerns the design of cooperative control strategies for a mix of mobile and static agents, with the objective of attaining pre-specified communication objectives.Intellectual merit: The overarching technical contribution is that of designing control systems with a communication component that features interference, fading and power constraints, requiring a deeper fusion of techniques from control theory, network information theory and networking.Broader impacts: The PI intends to use this proposal's results in the design of more efficient transportation systems. This proposal includes a five year undergraduate internship program, aimed at increasing the number of domestic students who pursue careers in engineering at the industrial and academic levels, especially females and minorities.