Supplement: Networked Sensing, Estimation and Control

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Vijay Gupta, Richard M. Murray, Ling Shi and Bruno Sinopoli

The area of "Networked Control Systems" has emerged over the past decade as a subdiscipline in control theory in which the flow of information in a system takes place across a network. Unlike traditional control systems, where computation and communications are usually ignored, the approaches that have been developed networked control systems explicitly take into account various aspects of the channels that interconnect different parts of the overall system and the nature of the distributed computation that follows from this structure. This leads to a new set of tools and techniques for analysis and design of networked control systems that builds on the rich frameworks of communication theory, computer science and control theory.

This book is based on a series of courses that the authors have developed over the past several years, starting with a joint course taught at Caltech in Spring 2006. These courses were typically taken by students who have a good grounding in the basic techniques of control systems but may not have a strong background in computer science or some aspects of communications theory. While the level of mathematical detail in the book should allow it to be accessible to juniors or seniors in engineering, the treatment is tuned for first and second year graduate students in engineering or computer science. Some tutorial material on estimation theory is included, as well as a brief review of key concepts in graph theory that are needed primarily in the second half of the text.

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