Publication

Mitigation of communication failures in distributed model predictive control strategies

Journal Article (2018)

Journal

IET Control Theory and Applications

Pages

2507-2515

Volume

12

Number

18

Doc link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/iet-cta.2018.5044

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Abstract

Information sharing among local controllers is the key feature of any Distributed Model Predictive Control (DMPC) strategy. This paper addresses the problem of communication failures in DMPC strategies and proposes a distributed solution to cope with them. The proposal consists in an information-exchange protocol that is based on distributed projection dynamics. By applying this protocol as a complementary plug-in to a DMPC strategy, the controllers become resilient against communication failures and relax the communication requirements. Furthermore, a discussion on the selection criteria of the information-sharing network and a reconfiguration algorithm, which is a contingency procedure to maintain the connectivity of the network, are also presented. In order to demonstrate the performance and advantages when adopting the proposed approach, a case study of a power-network control problem is considered.

Categories

automation, control theory, optimisation.

Author keywords

Distributed MPC, information-exchange protocol, distributed projection dynamics

Scientific reference

W. Ananduta, J. Barreiro, C. Ocampo-Martínez and N. Quijano. Mitigation of communication failures in distributed model predictive control strategies. IET Control Theory and Applications, 12(18): 2507-2515, 2018.