Networked Control Technology with Limited Signals

Dear Colleagues,

The development of communication technology has been connected to various aspects. In control engineering, controllers have tried to connect to plants through communication networks as well, namely networked control. Networked control has recently been becoming an important control strategy because of several advantages, such as flexible architecture, low cost, simple installation, and easy maintenance. On the other hand, networked control could access limited signals due to the limited capacity of the networks. Thus, it encounters undesired factors, such as external disturbance, transmission delay, and packet dropout which may lead to instability, poor performance of the system, and so on. In addition, to manage the limited resource of the networks, sampled-data, event-triggered mechanisms have been widely employed in this research area. These control methods would occupy network resources at only certain instants, not at all times, and as a result, network resources could be efficiently saved.

This Special Issue seeks contributions on topics including but not limited to the following:

• Network-based estimation, or filtering, or control;
• Multiagent systems with restricted signals;
• Event-triggered control of networked control system;
• Stability analysis or controller design for the sampled-data system;
• Complex dynamical networks and its applications;
• Applications of networked control with transmission delay, disturbance, packet dropout, quantization, and so on.

Dr. Tae H. Lee
Guest Editor

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