2007/01/01 by Luca Schenato, Bruno Sinopoli, Massimo Franceschetti +3 · 43 citations
Engineering · Computer Science · #Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems #Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms #Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks
paper · doi:10.1109/jproc.2006.887306
<para xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> This paper considers control and estimation problems where the sensor signals and the actuator signals are transmitted to various subsystems over a network. In contrast to traditional control and estimation problems, here the observation and control packets may be lost or delayed. The unreliability of the underlying communication network is modeled stochastically by assigning probabilities to the successful transmission of packets. This requires a novel theory which generalizes classical control/estimation paradigms. The paper offers the foundations of such a novel theory. </para>