Novel architecture for networked control systems

Architectural approach to cope with network-induced problems in network control systems design

“…Adoption of service-oriented style for the design of software components as network-accessible services that implement distributed NCS functionalities enables modularity, reusability, and rapid development [23,24]. The NCS architecture in [25] utilizes multi-agent middleware [26] and service-oriented approach to provide flexible and scalable framework for the consistent distribution of the control system functionalities to the dedicated timeaware components and identifies their basic properties.…”

“…The aim of this paper is to address network-related issues regarding closed-loop control in the domain of the system architecture, rather than in the domain of control theory that can be found in the common approaches. Since all NCS system components share the common temporal property at the functional level, we adopted the framework [25] for consistent stateless implementation of separate NCS functionalities compliant to time-aware operation concept.…”