Strategic Topological Formation for Wireless Control Systems.

The excessive use of nodes and communication links in a wireless control system (WCS) causes unnecessary utilization of resources. In this article, a strategic topological formation is studied for a WCS, where a previously proposed topology consisting of a plant system, a controller system, and an intermediate network system is further developed. More specifically, this article presents a modeling framework and a design procedure for the topology that results in the utilization of a reduced number of nodes and communication links.

Design of a Wireless Control System With Unreliable Nodes and Communication Links.

Unlike a traditional topology of a control system with feedback connected plant and controller systems, this paper discusses a new topology that uses an intermediate network system between the plant and controller systems. More specifically, this paper presents modeling frameworks as well as computational procedures for the design of the closed-loop control system when the nodes of the plant, controller, and network systems fail to operate and the communication links fail to transfer information between communicating nodes. It also discusses conditions required for the synthesis of the controller and network systems, and characterizes the maximum number of unavailable nodes and the maximum probability of unavailable communication links.