Performance limitations for single-input LTI plants controlled over SNR constrained channels with feedback

• Published in: Automatica (Oxford) Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 540 - 547
• Main Authors: Silva, Eduardo I., Pulgar, Sebastián A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2013; Elsevier
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Channels; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface; Constraints; Control systems; Control theory; Erasure channel; Exact sciences and technology; Feedback; Focusing; Networked control systems; Power constraints; Power plants; Signal-to-noise ratio; Software; Stabilization; Signal-to-noise ratio; Erasure channel; Networked control systems; Power constraints; Second moment; Stabilization; Feedback regulation; Distributed system; Stationary condition; Linear time invariant system; Optimal control; Discrete time; Distributed control; Error correcting code; Signal to noise ratio
• ISSN: 0005-1098; 1873-2836
• DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2012.11.037

This paper studies control problems for discrete-time single-input linear time-invariant plants when controlled over a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) constrained channel. Our focus is on the performance limitations in an architecture that uses channel feedback. We explicitly characterize the interplay between stabilization, optimal performance, and SNR constraints, highlighting the way in which plant dynamical features affect the best achievable performance. We also apply our results to the study of networked control systems where communication takes place over a power constrained erasure channel. In that scenario, we first show that stabilization problems, and problems involving stationary second-order moments, can be dealt with by focusing on a related SNR constrained networked situation. This observation allows one to obtain results valid in the alternative scenario as corollaries of the results obtained when a single SNR constraint is present.