A two-tier control architecture for nonlinear process systems with continuous/asynchronous feedback

International Journal of Control

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 257-272

  Liu, Jinfeng ^a   Muñoz De La Peña, David ^b   Ohran, Benjamin J ^a   Christofides, Panagiotis D ^a   Davis, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fault tolerant control systems; Model predictive control; Networked control systems; Nonlinear systems; Process control applications

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS MEASUREMENT; CHEMICAL PROCESS; CLOSED-LOOP PERFORMANCE; COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE; FAULT TOLERANT CONTROL SYSTEMS; LYAPUNOV; NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS; NETWORKED CONTROLS; NONLINEAR PROCESS; POINT-TO-POINT COMMUNICATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PROCESS-CONTROL APPLICATIONS; STABILITY PROPERTIES; THEORETICAL RESULT; WIRED LINKS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; NONLINEAR FEEDBACK; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PNEUMATIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; STABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 76249129406     PISSN: 00207179     EISSN: 13665820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207170903141051     Document Type: Article

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