1st Internationl ICST Workshop on Control over Communication Channels

Research Article

Dealing with time-delay in coordination-by-constraints methods

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480115,
        author={Alessandro  Casavola and Giuseppe Franze},
        title={Dealing with time-delay in coordination-by-constraints methods},
        proceedings={1st Internationl ICST Workshop on Control over Communication Channels},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CONCOM},
        year={2008},
        month={3},
        keywords={Communication channels  Control systems  Cost function  Fault tolerant systems  Master-slave  Networked control systems  Power system dynamics  Power system stability  Robot kinematics  Vehicle dynamics},
        doi={10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480115}
    }
    
  • Alessandro Casavola
    Giuseppe Franze
    Year: 2008
    Dealing with time-delay in coordination-by-constraints methods
    CONCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480115
Alessandro Casavola1,*, Giuseppe Franze1,*
  • 1: Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica Universit'a degli Studi della Calabria Via Pietro Bucci, Cubo 42-C, Rende (CS), 87036, ITALY
*Contact email: casavola@deis.unical.it, franze@deis.unical.it

Abstract

In this paper we present ideas on how to take care of communication time-delays in the supervision of networked control systems subject to coordination constraints to be enforced on-line. Such a coordination paradigm, referred to hereafter as coordination by constraints, is characterized by a set of spatially distributed dynamic systems, connected via communication channels, with possibly dynamical coupling among them which need to be supervised and coordinated in order to accomplish their overall objective. The significance of the method is that it is customizable to the specific QoS of the network and capable of ensuring coordination and stability. A set-point reconfiguration problem in networked multi-area power systems is presented.