Distributed Networked Controller Design for Large-scale Systems under Round-Robin Communication Protocol

TL;DR

This paper presents a distributed control design for large-scale systems using a Round-Robin communication protocol, ensuring stability and L2-gain performance through LMIs and a time-delay approach.

Contribution

It introduces a novel L2-gain control method for large-scale systems under Round-Robin communication, with stability guarantees and LMI-based design conditions.

Findings

Distributed controllers achieve exponential stability.

L2-gain performance is guaranteed.

Numerical examples demonstrate effectiveness.

Abstract

This paper studies the distributed L2-gain control problem for continuous-time large-scale systems under Round-Robin communication protocol. In this protocol, each sub-controller obtains its own subsystem's state information continuously, while communicating with neighbors at discrete-time instants periodically. Distributed controllers are designed such that the closed-loop system is exponentially stable and that the prescribed L2-gain is satisfied. The design condition is obtained based on a time-delay approach and given in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, three numerical examples are presented to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed scheme.