Title
Energy Efficient Time-Triggered Control Over Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks
Abstract
We investigate the scenario where a controller is connected to a plant using a wireless network. Our objective is to design control strategies, which efficiently use the network in terms of energy, by taking into account the fluctuations of the wireless channel. In particular, we consider discrete-time systems and we focus on time-triggered control. That is, we assume that we know a controller, which ensures a desired property (such as stability), as long as two successive transmissions are not spaced by more than a fixed number of steps N. The problem formulation is generic in the sense that we do not make any assumption on the plant and the controller structures or properties, all we need to ensure is the constraint on the transmission times. We then present triggering strategies to minimize the energy expenditure based on knowledge on the channel state, while ensuring that two successive transmissions are not spaced by more than N steps. The results demonstrate that periodically communicating after exactly N time instants has passed (to minimize the number of transmissions), is not always the optimal scheme to minimize the energy cost. As a result of certain properties of the wireless channel, communicating more often when the wireless channel conditions are good, results in a smaller energy consumption overall despite a higher frequency of communication. Numerical results confirm the validity of the approach and show that a significant amount of energy can be saved.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
2016 IEEE 55TH CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL (CDC)
Fixed wireless,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Wireless network,Control theory,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Power control,Real-time computing,Wi-Fi array,Wireless LAN controller,Wireless sensor network
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
0743-1546
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vineeth S. Varma13014.31
Romain Postoyan241339.05