Stochastic Sensor Scheduling for Networked Control Systems

DOI10.1109/TAC.2014.2298733zbMATH Open1360.93774DBLPjournals/tac/FarokhiJ14arXiv1209.5180OpenAlexW2110243835WikidataQ60431976 ScholiaQ60431976MaRDI QIDQ2983162FDOQ2983162

Authors: Farhad Farokhi, Karl Henrik Johansson 

Publication date: 16 May 2017

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Optimal sensor scheduling with applications to networked estimation and control systems is considered. We model sensor measurement and transmission instances using jumps between states of a continuous-time Markov chain. We introduce a cost function for this Markov chain as the summation of terms depending on the average sampling frequencies of the subsystems and the effort needed for changing the parameters of the underlying Markov chain. By minimizing this cost function through extending Brockett's recent approach to optimal control of Markov chains, we extract an optimal scheduling policy to fairly allocate the network resources among the control loops. We study the statistical properties of this scheduling policy in order to compute upper bounds for the closed-loop performance of the networked system, where several decoupled scalar subsystems are connected to their corresponding estimator or controller through a shared communication medium. We generalize the estimation results to observable subsystems of arbitrary order. Finally, we illustrate the developed results numerically on a networked system composed of several decoupled water tanks.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5180

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decentralized systems (93A14) Optimal stochastic control (93E20) Stochastic scheduling theory in operations research (90B36) Control/observation systems involving computers (process control, etc.) (93C83)

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