A servo-clock model for chains of transparent clocks affected by synchronization period jitter

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1085-1095

  Fontanelli, Daniele ^a   Macii, David ^a   Rinaldi, Stefano ^b   Ferrari, Paolo ^b   Flammini, Alessandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Industrial control; Kalman filters (KFs); optimal control; synchronization; time measurement; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; KALMAN FILTERS; STANDARDS; STATE FEEDBACK; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME MEASUREMENT;

DISTRIBUTED MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL CONTROLS; ISOCHRONOUS REAL TIME; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; PRECISION TIME PROTOCOLS; SYNCHRONIZATION PROTOCOLS; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY CONTRIBUTIONS;

CLOCKS;

EID: 84898774346     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2286871     Document Type: Article

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