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

控制和通信之间的相互作用在当今大多数大型工程企业中普遍存在，包括工业和运输部门。这项建议提出了一个紧密结合研究和教育组成部分的计划，以设计具有无线通信能力的分布式控制系统为中心。与有线网络相比，无线通信实现了移动性、简化了重新配置并降低了部署成本。然而，大多数移动无线通信技术都具有干扰、衰落和功率限制等特点。这些属性使得这种网络控制系统的分析和设计明显变得更加困难。这项提议的研究计划引入了两个新的范式。第一种模式称为网络预览控制，它规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。在给定扰动场的情况下，网络预见控制的目的是利用远程传感器向控制器提供扰动预见信息。第二种模式涉及为移动和静态智能体的混合设计协作控制策略，以达到预先指定的通信目标。智力优势：最主要的技术贡献是设计带有通信部件的控制系统，该通信部件具有干扰、衰落和功率限制，需要控制理论、网络信息理论和网络技术的更深层次的融合。广泛的影响：PI打算将该建议的结果用于设计更高效的交通系统。这项提议包括一项为期五年的本科生实习计划，旨在增加在工业和学术层面从事工程工作的国内学生的数量，特别是女性和少数族裔。

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.