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

ECCS-0644764 PI：Martins摘要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是普遍存在的，包括工业和运输部门。该提案提出了一个方案，紧密耦合的研究和教育组件，集中在具有无线通信能力的分布式控制系统的设计。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，大多数移动的无线通信技术的特征在于干扰、衰落和功率约束。这些属性使得这种网络控制系统的分析和设计变得更加困难。该提案的研究计划引入了两个新的范式。第一种范式，表示为网络化的预览控制，指定一个框架，由空间分布的传感器和一个控制器的无线网络。网络预见控制的目的是在给定扰动场的情况下，利用远程传感器向控制器提供扰动预见信息。第二个范例涉及移动的和静态代理的混合的合作控制策略的设计，其目的是达到预先指定的通信目标。总体的技术贡献是设计具有通信组件的控制系统，该通信组件具有干扰、衰落和功率约束，需要从控制理论，网络信息理论和网络。更广泛的影响：PI打算在更有效的交通系统的设计中使用该提案的结果。该提案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职业的国内学生人数，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.