Guaranteed Cost Control for Uncertain Networked Control Systems With Predictive Scheme

The problem of guaranteed cost control for a class of networked control systems possessing uncertainties, network delays, and packet dropouts is solved in this paper. By means of introducing an auxiliary variable, a newly coupled, switched system model is derived first. Then, based on a predictive network control scheme, the conditions for guaranteed control performance of the overall system in terms of linear matrix inequalities are given. Next, a novel control design method, involving convex optimization technique to find solutions for the controllers that vary according to network delays and data-dropouts, is developed. It is shown from theory that the obtained criteria are much less conservative than existing ones. Finally, two illustrative examples, the second one being a laboratory-scale rig, are elaborated on to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design method. Both numerical and simulation results appear favorable to this novel network control system synthesis.