Title
Plug-and-play state estimation and application to distributed output-feedback model predictive control
Abstract
In this paper we propose a novel distributed state estimator for large-scale linear systems composed by subsystems interacting through state variables. The distributed state estimator has the following features: (i) local state estimators, each dedicated to the reconstruction of the states of a subsystem, are connected through a communication network with the parent–child topology induced by subsystems coupling; (ii) the design of a local state estimator requires information on the associated subsystem and its parents only. As a consequence, both the offline design and the online implementation are distributed and scalable. In particular, the addition and removal of subsystems can be handled in a plug-and-play fashion. The distributed state estimator is also combined with a plug-and-play distributed model predictive control scheme to provide a novel output-feedback plug-and-play distributed controller capable of guaranteeing nominal convergence and constraint satisfaction. Applications to a mechanical system and power networks demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.ejcon.2015.04.001
European Journal of Control
Keywords
Field
DocType
Distributed state estimation,Plug-and-play,Model predictive control,Output feedback control
Convergence (routing),Constraint satisfaction,Control theory,Linear system,Computer science,Control theory,Model predictive control,Control engineering,State variable,Scalability,Estimator
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
25
0947-3580
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.53
22
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefano Riverso116717.28
Marcello Farina233536.83
Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate383177.29