01657nas a2200169   4500008004100000245009300041210006900134300001400203520104000217653002101257653001301278100001501291700001601306700001501322700001901337856013101356       2004                        eng d00aControl of Distributed Embedded Systems in the Presence of Unknown–but–Bounded Noise0 aControl of Distributed Embedded Systems in the Presence of Unkno  a1448-14533 a<p>In this paper we consider the problem of controlling multiple scalar systems through a limited capacity shared channel. Each system is affected by process noise and can be controlled byactuators with values in a {\em fixed}inite set. The control objective is to bound the evolution of the systems in specified sets (controlled invariance). Our goal is to find an optimal allocation of the shared communication resource to the different control activities and to identify correct choices for the design parameters. The paper provides fundamental conceptual tools to attack the design problem in the formal framework of an optimization problem. Namely, we give a feasibility criterion to decide whether a set of design parameters conforms with a control specification (i.e., with the controlled invariance of a specified set for each system). Moreover, we offer the explicit computation of the minimum bit rate necessary for the controlled invariance of a set, which is of utmost importance for solving the optimization problem.</p>
10aEmbedded Control10aRobotics1 aPicasso, B1 aPalopoli, L1 aBicchi, A.1 aJohansson, K H  uhttp://118699.obes.asia/publications/control-distributed-embedded-systems-presence-unknown%E2%80%93%E2%80%93bounded-noise.html