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Controllers are often designed based on a reduced or simplified model of the plant dynamics. In this context, we investigate whether it is possible to synthesize a stabilizing event-triggered feedback law for networked control systems (NCS)…
This paper deals with the design of scheduling logics for networked control systems (NCSs) whose communication networks have limited capacity and are prone to data losses. Our contributions are twofold. First, we present a probabilistic…
A solution is given to the basic distributed feedback control problem for a multi-channel linear system assuming only that the system is jointly controllable, jointly observable and has an associated neighbor graph which is strongly…
In the discrete modeling approach for hybrid control systems, the continuous plant is reduced to a discrete event approximation, called the DES-plant, that is governed by a discrete event system, representing the controller. The…
In important applications involving multi-task networks with multiple objectives, agents in the network need to decide between these multiple objectives and reach an agreement about which single objective to follow for the network. In this…
This paper addresses the verification and enforcement of prognosability and diagnosability for discreteevent systems (DESs) modeled by deterministic finite automata. We establish the equivalence between prognosability (respectively,…
Recent work in the area of interdependent networks has focused on interactions between two systems of the same type. However, an important and ubiquitous class of systems are those involving monitoring and control, an example of…
The paradigm of Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems (CPSoS) is becoming rather popular in the control systems research community because of its expressive power able to properly handle many engineered complex systems of interest.…
Statistical analysis on networks has received growing attention due to demand from various emerging applications. In dynamic networks, one of the key interests is to model the event history of time-stamped interactions amongst nodes. We…
This paper presents a mathematical framework for characterizing state blocking in discrete event systems (DES) under transition deletions. We introduce a path-based analysis approach that determines whether systems maintain non-blocking…
This paper deals with the design of scheduling logics for Networked Control Systems (NCSs) whose shared communication networks have limited capacity. We assume that among \(N\) plants, only \(M\:(< N)\) plants can communicate with their…
Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a powerful tool for evaluating school security measures in high-risk scenarios such as school shootings, offering experimental control and high behavioral fidelity. However, assessing new interventions in…
Complex systems often have features that can be modeled by advanced mathematical tools [1]. Of special interests are the features of complex systems that have a network structure as such systems are important for modeling technological and…
In this paper, we investigate the problem of designing event-triggered controllers for containing epidemic processes in complex networks. We focus on a deterministic susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model, which is one of the…
A challenge in transmission-distribution coordination is how to quickly and reliably coordinate Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) across large multi-stakeholder Distribution Networks (DNs) to support the Transmission Network (TN), while…
We introduce a versatile framework to model and study networked control systems (NCSs). An NCS is described as a feedback interconnection of a plant and a controller communicating through a bidirectional channel modelled by cascaded…
Event-triggered and self-triggered control have been proposed in recent years as promising control strategies to reduce communication resources in Networked Control Systems (NCSs). Based on the notion of set-invariance theory, this note…
In this paper, we investigate the covert sensor attack synthesis problem in the framework of supervisory control of networked discrete-event systems (DES), where the observation channel and the control channel are assumed to be non-FIFO and…
In this paper, we propose a design of a model-free networked controller for a nonlinear plant whose mathematical model is unknown. In a networked control system, the controller and plant are located away from each other and exchange data…
This paper addresses a scheduling problem in the context of a cyber-physical system where a sensor and a controller communicate over an unreliable channel. The sensor observes the state of a source at each time, and according to a…