Research

The field of networked controlled systems (NCS) refers to feedback systems controlled over networks. These systems result from the arrival of new control problems posed by the consideration of several factors, such as new technological components (e.g., wireless, RF, communications, local networks, etc.), increase of systems complexity (i.e., increase in vehicle components), the distributed location of sensors and actuators, and computations constraints imposed by their embedded nature. In this systems class, the way that the information is transferred and processed (information constraints), and the manner in which the computation resources are used (resources management), have a substantial impact in the resulting stability and performances properties of the feedback controlled systems; inversely, a certain control law may be affected by the properties of the channel transmission (latency, delay jitter, signal quantification, loss of data, etc.) and the way that the computational resources are distributed.

Complexity and energy are additional dimension that covers the 3Cs field, and it concerns about the topology (interaction) of the network connections, and the use of energy resources under some kind of communications and/or computation constraints.

Research topics

All these topics are detailed in the activity reports