Advanced control strategies for networked/distributed systems – theory and applications

In the last decades, the communication networks and their applications passed through major changes, reaching nowadays to be used in the area of high performance networked/distributed control in automation. This area is still developing with attractive and widespread applications ranging from automotive, large manufacturing plants, military unmanned vehicles, aero-spatial to tele-robotics and tele-medicine. This book is structured as follows: the first three chapters provide solutions for the problems encountered in designing networked control systems, while the last three chapters offer methodologies to deal with the complexity of the distributed control systems in three different ways: through decentralized control, through non-cooperative distributed control, and through coalitional distributed control. Table of Contents View