Guest Editorial, Special Issue on 'Networked Control Systems'

J. Baillieul and Panos J.Antsaklis

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Vol. 49, No. 9, pp.1421-1423, September 2004

Abstract—Motivated by the accelerating technological convergence of communications, control, and computing, researchers from a variety of disciplines have become interested in the exciting potential and technological challenges of networked control systems (NCSs). In the broadest terms, these systems are comprised of actuators, sensors, and controllers whose operation is coordinated through some form of communication network. The system elements are typically spatially isolated from one another, operating in an asynchronous manner and communicating over a wide area via both wired and wireless links.

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