Abstract: The paper reviews the major contributions and the possible future challenges in the emerging area of Networked Control Systems (NCSs). Activities in this field can be categorized as the control of networks, the control over networks, and the multi-agent system. The control of networks is mainly concerned with providing a certain level of performance to a network data flow, to efficiently use network resources. The control over networks deals with the design of feedback strategies for control systems in which control data are exchanged through unreliable communication links. The multi-agent system deals with the study of how the network architecture and the interactions between network components influence the global control goal. More precisely, the problem here is to understand how the local laws describing the behavior of the individual agents influence the global behavior of the networked system. Focusing on network delays, network packet dropout, and multiple-packet transmission in the area of control over networks, this paper reviews the research achievements and advances of analysis and synthesis in NCS. The problems in NCS and the future directions in NCS are pointed out.
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Received: 09 December 2009
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Corresponding Authors:
Ye guo Sun
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