The Effect of Time Delay on the Average Data Rate and Performance in Networked Control Systems
Abstract
This paper studies the performance of a feedback control loop closed via an error-free digital communication channel with transmission delay. The system comprises a discrete-time noisy linear time-invariant (LTI) plant whose single measurement output is mapped into its single control input by a causal, but otherwise arbitrary, coding and control scheme. We consider a single-input multiple-output (SIMO) channel between the encoder-controller and the decoder-controller which is lossless and imposes random time delay. We derive a lower bound on the minimum average feedback data rate that guarantees achieving a certain level of average quadratic performance over all possible realizations of the random delay. For the special case of a constant channel delay, we obtain an upper bound by proposing linear source-coding schemes that attain desired performance levels with rates that are at most 1.254 bits per sample greater than the lower bound. We give a numerical example demonstrating that bounds and operational rates are increasing functions of the constant delay. In other words, to achieve a specific performance level, greater channel delay necessitates spending higher data rate.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1809.01071,
title = {The Effect of Time Delay on the Average Data Rate and Performance in Networked Control Systems},
author = {M. Barforooshan and M. S. Derpich and P. A. Stavrou and J. Østergaard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.01071},
year = {2018}
}