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What Is Distributed Control with Direct Communication Between Controllers?

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Coordination Control of Distributed Systems

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Control of distributed systems with the control architecture of distributed control with direct communication between controllers is used in engineering and new applications are in development. Examples are control of road vehicles with communication between these and control of message routing in communication networks where the communication is between adjacent nodes of the network. The control synthesis for this control architecture is considerably difficult. Major research issues include the following: What should be communicated between controllers? When should such information be communicated? How is the communication to be carried out using encoders and decoders? How to integrate the received information from two or more sources into a coherent view of the system and how to carry out control synthesis?

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van Schuppen, J.H. (2015). What Is Distributed Control with Direct Communication Between Controllers?. In: van Schuppen, J., Villa, T. (eds) Coordination Control of Distributed Systems. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 456. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10407-2_22

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