Enabling the Internet of Things (IoT): structured networked control systems

网络控制系统是一项新兴技术，它结合了控制、通信和计算，为一系列制造业、安全关键基础设施提供解决方案，如运输、国防和其他工业物联网(IIoT)应用。目前的分析和设计方法往往对系统采取“整体”的观点，这使得它们不足以满足许多重要的IIoT应用。这一建议将利用工厂、通信网络和分布式计算的特定特征和结构，提供一种分析和设计方法，从而在IIoT的控制和优化性能方面取得重大进展，并为经济和社会带来好处。

Networked control systems are an emerging technology that combines control, communication and computation to deliver solutions for a range of manufacturing, safety-critical infrastructure, such as transport, defence and other Industrial Interent of Things (IIoT) applications. The current analysis and design approaches often take a ``monolithic" view of the system, which render them inadequate for addressing many important IIoT applications. This proposal will exploit specific features and structure of the plant, the communication network and the distributed computation to provide an analysis and design methodology which will deliver significant advances in control and optimised performance of IIoT with benefits to the economy and society.