Le cadre de cette thèse est l'étude des systèmes contrôlés en réseau sans fil (SCRSF) qui utilise la technologie IEEE 802.15.4. Le premier objectif est d'étudier la pertinence de l'utilisation du réseau de type IEEE 802.15.4 pour les SCRSF puis de proposer et d'évaluer des mécanismes pour garantir la Qualité de Service (QdS) offerte par le réseau au système contrôlé. Nous analysons l'utilisation des slots temporels réservés (GTS) dans le cadre des SCRSF et les contraintes qui en découlent. De plus, nous proposons des mécanismes de gestion de la QdS avec priorité aussi bien pour le mode avec balise que pour le mode sans balise du protocole IEEE 802.15.4. Ces propositions ont été validées par des simulations et une partie de manière analytique. Notre deuxième objectif est de concevoir, d'une manière conjointe, les SCRSF pour pouvoir régler en ligne la QdS offerte par le réseau en fonction de la Qualité de Contrôle (QdC) du système contrôlé. Nous proposons des protocoles d'adaptation en ligne de la QdS du réseau qui prennent en compte la QdC du système contrôlé. Ces protocoles ont été validés par simulations et une implémentation réelle de chacun d'eux est proposée / In this thesis, we study wireless networked control systems (WNCS) which use the IEEE 802.15.4 technology. The first objective is to study the pertinence of the use of the IEEE 802.15.4 for the WNCS, then to propose and evaluate QoS management mechanisms which guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS) offered by network to the controlled system. We analyse the use of the guaranteed temporel slots (GTS) for WNCS and in which conditions it is possible. We propose QoS management mechanisms with priority for both the beacon enabled mode and the non-beacon enabled mode of the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol. These proposals are validated through simulations and partially with analytical approach. The second objective is to design the WNCS so that the QoS offered by the network is adated online depending on the Quality of Control (QoC) on the controlled system. We propose QoS online adaptation protocols which take as parameter the QoC of the system. These protocols are validated through simulations and a realistic implementation of them is proposed

The scope of the thesis is to estimate the parameters of continuous-time models used within control and communication from sampled data with high accuracy and in a computationally efficient way.In the thesis, continuous-time models of systems controlled in a networked environment, errors-in-variables systems, stochastic closed-loop systems, and wireless channels are considered. The parameters of a transfer function based model for the process in a networked control system are estimated by a covariance function based approach relying upon the second order statistical properties of input and output signals. Some other approaches for estimating the parameters of continuous-time models for processes in networked environments are also considered. The multiple input multiple output errors-in-variables problem is solved by means of a covariance matching algorithm. An analysis of a covariance matching method for single input single output errors-in-variables system identification is also presented. The parameters of continuous-time autoregressive exogenous models are estimated from closed-loop filtered data, where the controllers in the closed-loop are of proportional and proportional integral type, and where the closed-loop also contains a time-delay. A stochastic differential equation is derived for Jakes's wireless channel model, describing the dynamics of a scattered electric field with the moving receiver incorporating a Doppler shift. / <p>The thesis consists of five main parts, where the first part is an introduction- Parts II-IV are based on the following articles:</p><p><strong>Part II</strong> - Networked Control Systems</p><p>1. Y. Irshad, M. Mossberg and T. Söderström. <em>System identification in a networkedenvironment using second order statistical properties</em>.</p><p>A versionwithout all appendices is published as Y. Irshad, M. Mossberg and T. Söderström. <em>System identification in a networked environment using second order statistical properties</em>. Automatica, 49(2), pages 652–659, 2013.</p><p>Some preliminary results are also published as M. Mossberg, Y. Irshad and T. Söderström. <em>A covariance function based approachto networked system identification.</em> In Proc. 2nd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, pages 127–132, Annecy,France, September 13–14, 2010</p><p>2. Y. Irshad and M. Mossberg. <em>Some parameters estimation methods applied tonetworked control systems</em>.A journal submission is made. Some preliminary results are published as Y. Irshad and M. Mossberg.<em> A comparison of estimation concepts applied to networked control systems</em>. In Proc. 19th Int. Conf. on Systems, Signals andImage Processing, pages 120–123, Vienna, Austria, April 11–13, 2012.</p><p><strong>Part III</strong> - Errors-in-variables Identification</p><p>3. Y. Irshad and M. Mossberg. <em>Continuous-time covariance matching for MIMOEIV system identification</em>. A journal submission is made.</p><p>4. T. Söderström, Y. Irshad, M. Mossberg and W. X. Zheng. <em>On the accuracy of acovariance matching method for continuous-time EIV identification. </em>Provisionally accepted for publication in Automatica.</p><p>Some preliminary results are published as T. Söderström, Y. Irshad, M. Mossberg, and W. X. Zheng. <em>Accuracy analysis of a covariance matching method for continuous-time errors-in-variables system identification</em>. In Proc. 16th IFAC Symp. System Identification, pages 1383–1388, Brussels, Belgium, July 11–13, 2012.</p><p><strong>Part IV</strong> - Wireless Channel Modeling</p><p>5. Y. Irshad and M. Mossberg.<em> Wireless channel modeling based on stochasticdifferential equations .</em>Some results are published as M. Mossberg and Y. Irshad.<em> A stochastic differential equation forwireless channelsbased on Jakes’s model with time-varying phases,</em> In Proc. 13th IEEEDigitalSignal Processing Workshop, pages 602–605, Marco Island, FL, January4–7, 2009.</p><p><strong>Part V</strong> - Closed-loop Identification</p><p>6. Y. Irshad and M. Mossberg. Closed-loop identification of P- and PI-controlledtime-delayed stochastic systems.Some results are published as M. Mossberg and Y. Irshad. <em>Closed-loop identific ation of stochastic models from filtered data</em>, In Proc. IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control,San Antonio, TX, September 3–5, 2008</p>

As the trends towards decentralization, miniaturization, and longevity of deployment continue in many domains, power management has become increasingly important. In this work, we develop power-aware control strategies for wireless sensor networks to improve the lifetime of the network and to ensure that the desired performance is guaranteed. For the case of static networks (networks of agents with no mobility), we identify the problem of the effects of power variations on the performance of an individual sensing device and on the entire network. To address this problem in a randomly deployed sensor network comprising of sensing devices whose sensing range is a function of transmitted power, we propose power-aware controllers to compensate for the variations in available power and maintain desired performance. We also propose a novel energy-efficient sleep-scheduling scheme that is random in nature and allows limited coordination among neighboring sensors for making switching decisions. This scheme is based on the concept of a hard-core point process from stochastic geometry, in which neighboring points are allowed to interact with each other through some predefined interaction laws. For the case of mobile networks (networks of agents with mobility), we propose a solid framework for distributed power-aware mobility strategies that can achieve any desired global objective while minimizing total energy consumption. This goal is achieved by first exploring fundamental trade-offs among various modes of operations of mobile devices and then exploiting these trade-offs for minimizing energy consumption. Through this framework, a whole class of decentralized power-aware controllers emerge for solving canonical problems in multi-agent systems like connectivity maintenance, rendezvous, and coverage control.

Networked control systems (NCSs) present many advantages such as easy installation and maintenance, flexible layouts and structures of components, and efficient allocation and distribution of resources. Consequently, they find potential applications in a variety of emerging industrial systems including multi-agent systems, power grids, tele-operations and cyber-physical systems. The study of NCSs with nonlinear dynamics (i.e., nonlinear NCSs) is a very significant yet challenging topic, and it not only widens application areas of NCSs in practice, but also extends the theoretical framework of NCSs with linear dynamics (i.e., linear NCSs). Numerous issues are required to be resolved towards a fully-fledged theory of industrial nonlinear NCS design. In this dissertation, three important problems of nonlinear NCSs are investigated: The robust filtering problem, the robust model predictive control (MPC) problem and the robust distributed MPC problem of large-scale nonlinear systems. In the robust filtering problem of nonlinear NCSs, the nonlinear system model is subject to uncertainties and external disturbances, and the measurements suffer from time delays governed by a Markov process. Utilizing the Lyapunov theory, the algebraic Hamilton-Jacobi inequality (HJI)-based sufficient conditions are established for designing the H_infty nonlinear filter. Moreover, the developed results are specialized for a special type of nonlinear systems, by presenting the HJI in terms of matrix inequalities. For the robust MPC problem of NCSs, three aspects are considered. Firstly, to reduce the computation and communication load, the networked MPC scheme with an efficient transmission and compensation strategy is proposed, for constrained nonlinear NCSs with disturbances and two-channel packet dropouts. A novel Lyapunov function is constructed to ensure the input-to-state practical stability (ISpS) of the closed-loop system. Secondly, to improve robustness, a networked min-max MPC scheme are developed, for constrained nonlinear NCSs subject to external disturbances, input and state constraints, and network-induced constraints. The ISpS of the resulting nonlinear NCS is established by constructing a new Lyapunov function. Finally, to deal with the issue of unavailability of system state, a robust output feedback MPC scheme is designed for constrained linear systems subject to periodical measurement losses and external disturbances. The rigorous feasibility and stability conditions are established. For the robust distributed MPC problem of large-scale nonlinear systems, three steps are taken to conduct the studies. In the first step, the issue of external disturbances is addressed. A robustness constraint is proposed to handle the external disturbances, based on which a novel robust distributed MPC algorithm is designed. The conditions for guaranteeing feasibility and stability are established, respectively. In the second step, the issue of communication delays are dealt with. By designing the waiting mechanism, a distributed MPC scheme is proposed, and the feasibility and stability conditions are established. In the third step, the robust distributed MPC problem for large-scale nonlinear systems subject to control input constraints, communication delays and external disturbances are studied. A dual-mode robust distributed MPC strategy is designed to deal with the communication delays and the external disturbances simultaneously, and the feasibility and the stability conditions are developed, accordingly. / Graduate / 0548 / 0544

Der Trend auch für schnelle, zeitkritische Regelungsaufgaben geht zunehmend in Richtung Feldbusse und Industrial Ethernet. Dem unbestreitbaren Nutzen der Kosteneinsparung stehen Probleme gegenüber: Die unsicheren Zeitbedingungen im Netz verschlechtern die dynamischen Eigenschaften digitaler Regelungen in unvorhersehbarer Weise. Diese Arbeit stellt eine praktikable Methodik vor, um die Regelgüte solcher Systeme sicher und aufwandsarm vorherzusagen.:1. Einführung 2. Übersicht bisher eingesetzter Beschreibungen 3. Statistische Beschreibung von Netzen mit wahlfreiem Zugriff 4. Einbindung in Regelkreise 5. Statistische Beschreibung von Netzen mit wahlfreiem Zugriff 6. Zuverlässigkeit der Aussagen 7. Anwendungsbeispiele 8. Zusammenfassung und Ausblick 9. Literaturverzeichnis / High dynamic, i.e. time-critical automatic feedback control systems are more and more implemented using field bus or industrial ethernet solutions. The cost-efficiency of these approaches is unchallengeable, but they also cause serious technical problems: Uncertain time behavior of data networks so far degrades the dynamic performance of digital closed-loop controls in an unpredictable manner. The research paper introduces a practicable, reliable and straightforward method to forecast the system behavior.:1. Einführung 2. Übersicht bisher eingesetzter Beschreibungen 3. Statistische Beschreibung von Netzen mit wahlfreiem Zugriff 4. Einbindung in Regelkreise 5. Statistische Beschreibung von Netzen mit wahlfreiem Zugriff 6. Zuverlässigkeit der Aussagen 7. Anwendungsbeispiele 8. Zusammenfassung und Ausblick 9. Literaturverzeichnis

Networked control over wireless sensor and actuator systems is of growing importancein many application domains. Energy and communication bandwidth are scarce resources in such systems. Despite that feedback control might only be needed occasionally, sensor and actuator communications are often periodic and with high frequency in today’s implementations. In this thesis, resource-constrained wireless networked control systems with an adaptive sampling period are considered. Our first contribution is a system architecture for aperiodic wireless networked control. As the underlying data transmission is performed over a shared wireless network, we identify scheduling policies and medium access controls that allow for an efficient implementation of sensor communication. We experimentally validate three proposed mechanisms and show that best performance is obtained by a hybrid scheme, combining the advantages of event- and self-triggered control as well as the possibilities provided by contention-based and contention-free medium accesscontrol. In the second contribution, we propose an event-triggered PI controller for wireless process control systems. A novel triggering mechanism which decides the transmission instants based on an estimate of the control signal is proposed. It addresses some side-effects that have been discovered in previous PI proposals, which trigger on the state of the process. Through simulations we demonstrate that the new PI controller provides setpoint tracking and disturbance rejection close to a periodic PI controller, while reducing the required network resources. The third contribution proposes a co-design of feedback controllers and wireless medium access. The co-design is formulated as a constrained optimization problem, whereby the objective function is the energy consumption of the network and the constraints are the packet loss probability and delay, which are derived from the performance requirements of the control systems. The design framework is illustrated in a numerical example. / QC 20111004

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L'étude des Systèmes Contrôlés en Réseaux (SCR) repose sur l'identification des exigences de fonctionnement de l'application appelées Qualité de Contrôle (QdC) et sur l'évaluation de la Qualité de Service (QdS) offerte par le réseau. Les travaux sur les SCR se repartissent selon deux approches : la commande en réseau et la commande de réseau. Cette thèse se positionne sur la deuxième approche avec une recherche axée sur la modélisation des mécanismes d'ordonnancement implémentés dans les équipements réseau et notamment dans les commutateurs Ethernet qui sont de plus en plus utilisés dans les applications industrielles. Ce travail de recherche étudie plus particulièrement comme paramètre de QdS, les délais qui engendrent des perturbations sur le système commandé. Cette thèse propose deux modèles de classification de service reposant sur des ordonnanceurs WRR (Weighted Round Robin). La première modélisation suit une approche constructive en utilisant la théorie du calcul réseau. La seconde s'appuie sur une phase d'identification à partir de simulations numériques et de la logique floue. Dans les deux cas, le but est d'offrir une bande passante suffisante pour le trafic contraint temporellement tout en maximisant la bande passante dédiée aux autres trafics pour éviter des effets famine. L'approche calcul réseau permet de configurer le réseau hors-ligne pour répondre à des contraintes temporelles strictes du SCR. La solution basée sur la logique floue autorise une commande dynamique de l'ordonnanceur pour ajuster en ligne le réseau en fonction des variations du trafic. Elle ne peut s'appliquer qu'à des SCR ayant des contraintes de temps souples / The study of the Networked Control Systems (NCS) is based both on the identification of the application functioning requirements called Quality of Control (QoC) and on the evaluation of the Quality of Service (QoS) offered by the network. The studies on the NCS are classified according to two approaches: the control over network and the control of network. This thesis addresses the second approach and models the scheduling mechanisms implemented in the Ethernet switches that are more and more used in the industrial applications. The specific QoS parameter studied in this thesis is the delay disturbing the controlled system. This thesis proposes two models of classification of service based on WRR (Weighted Round Robin) schedulers. The first modeling follows a constructive approach by using the network calculus theory. The second is based on an identification step from numerical simulations and from the fuzzy logic. In the two cases, the purpose is both to offer enough bandwidth for the time constrained traffic and to maximize the bandwidth dedicated to the others traffics to avoid famine effects. The network calculus approach is used to configure off-line the network in respecting the NCS strict time constraints. The solution based on the fuzzy logic enables a dynamic control of the scheduler in order to tune on-line the network according to the traffic variations. This latter can be applied only to NCS with soft time constraints

Aujourd'hui, les réseaux de communications sont largement utilisés pour relier les points de ressources, qui permettent la transmission de données à distance, de réduire la complexité dans le cadre de câblage et les coûts de support et de fournir l'aide dans la maintenance. En raison de ces avantages, les réseaux ont été introduits dans les systèmes automatiques au cours de ces dernières décennies et de nouveaux protocoles de réseau industriel ont été également développés pour assurer le contrôle à distance. Les systèmes contrôlés en réseau SCR (Networked Control System NCS) sont des systèmes automatiques traditionnels où les actionneurs, les capteurs, les contrôleurs et des autres composants sont distribués autour d'un réseau de communication, qui peut être partagé ou non avec d'autres applications. Les données de commande et de diagnostic sont échangées entre les composants du système (capteur, contrôleur, actionneur) via ce réseau partagé. Cette nouvelle architecture de système de contrôle introduit des problèmes originaux, en termes de retard variable affectant la transmission, des pertes de paquets, etc. Dans l'objectif de maintenir de bonnes performances du module de diagnostic face à des éventuelles variations introduites par le réseau, il est intéressant d'introduire des nouvelles approches. Nous avons rapporté les résultats relatifs aux techniques d'estimation optimale à base de filtre de Kalman, de façon à constituer un document aussi complet que possible traitant la génération de résidus et l'isolation des défauts dans SCR. Notre contribution consiste, dans un premier temps, à développer un modèle d'état d'un système contrôlé via un réseau. En deuxième temps, nous proposons un générateur de résidus en se basant sur les hypothèses simulant le retard induit par le réseau. Finalement, nous développons un filtre isolateur pour identifier directement les défauts affectant les actionneurs dans un SCR / Today's communications networks are widely used to connect the resources, enabling the remote data transmission, reducing the cabling complexity, minimizing costs and providing easy maintenance. Because of these advantages, the networks have been introduced in automatic systems during recent decades and new industrial network protocols were also developed for the remote control. The systems controlled by networks, the term "Networked Control Systems (NCS)" are automatic traditional systems where the actuators, the sensors, the controllers and other components are distributed around a communication network that can be shared or not with other applications. The data of both control and diagnostic are exchanged between system components (sensor, controller and actuator) via the shared network. This new architecture of control system introduces new problems in terms of variable delay affecting the transmission, the packet loss, etc. With the aim to maintain good performance of diagnostic module face of possible changes introduced by the network, it is interesting to introduce new approaches. We have reported results for the optimal estimation techniques based on Kalman filter, thus creating a report as complete as possible, treating the residual generation and fault isolation in NCS. Our contribution consists, firstly, to develop a state space model of a system controlled via a network. Secondly, we propose a residual generator based on the delay models induced by the network. Finally, we develop a isolation filter in order to directly identify in the actuators faults in a SCR

Les travaux développés dans cette thèse portent sur la "co-conception diagnostic / ordonnancement des mesures dans un système contrôlé en réseau" qui est un sujet multidisciplinaire nécessitant des compétences en théorie du contrôle et en théorie des réseaux. La thèse a pour but de développer, dans le contexte des systèmes contrôlés en réseau, une approche de co-conception qui intègre de façon coordonnée les caractéristiques qui expriment la performance du diagnostic des défauts et les paramètres de l'ordonnancement temps-réel des messages. L'intérêt de cette approche coordonnée réside essentiellement dans la minimisation des ressources nécessaires pour atteindre la performance du diagnostic requise, minimisation qui prend tout son sens dans le contexte des systèmes embarqués. Nous nous sommes intéressés plus particulièrement à l'étude des problèmes liés à l'élaboration d'algorithmes de diagnostic efficaces et adaptés aux caractéristiques de l'application de façon tout en prenant en compte différents types de contraintes liées au réseau. En conjonction avec ces algorithmes, deux ensembles de techniques d'ordonnancement des mesures ont été développés : - ordonnancement hors ligne - ordonnancement évènementiel en ligne Pour l'ordonnancement hors ligne, les séquences de communication sont conçues en amont, préalablement à la mise en oeuvre de l'algorithme de diagnostic (implémentation). D'autre part, nous proposons aussi des techniques d'ordonnancement en ligne basées sur l'échantillonnage évènementiel développé au cours de la dernière décennie. Au contraire de la plupart des recherches en automatique classique, considérant que l'échantillonnage des signaux continus est réalisé d'une manière périodique, les mesures dans cette approche sont transmises si et seulement si la condition de transmission (évènement) est vérifiée / The works developed in this thesis deal with 'fault diagnosis and sensor scheduling co-design' in networked control system. This multidisciplinary subject requires theoretical knowledge in both fault diagnosis and communication networks. Our contribution consists in developing a co-design approach that integrates in the same framework the characteristics of fault diagnosis performance and real time sensor scheduling. The main benefit of this approach is minimizing the required network resources for attending acceptable fault diagnosis performances. We are interested in the development of more efficient and more adapted for real time implementation fault diagnosis algorithms while taking into account different types of communication constraints. In conjunction with these algorithms, two sets of sensor scheduling techniques are used : - Off-line scheduling - On-line scheduling (event triggered sampling) For off-line scheduling, the communication sequences are designed before the implementation of the diagnostic algorithm. In this context, we proposed several techniques for scheduling with different spatial and temporal complexity and adapted to different operating condition for the detection and the isolation of faults based on the information provided by the selected communication sequences. Moreover, we deal also with on-line scheduling techniques based on the event triggered sampling developed during the last decade. In This approach measurement packets are transmitted if and only if the transmission condition (event) is verified. This saves resources provided by the network while maintaining acceptable performance of fault diagnosis. The objective of these algorithms is to minimize the number of transmitted information which means less energy consumption and has a major importance in wireless networked control systems