Design of Smith-like Predictive Controller with Communication Delay Adaptation

This paper addresses the design of predictive networked controller with adaptation of a communication delay. The networked control system contains random delays from sensor to controller and from controller to actuator. The proposed predictive controller includes an adaptation loop which decreases the influence of communication delay on the control performance. Also, the predictive controller contains a filter which improves the robustness of the control system. The performance of the proposed adaptive predictive controller is demonstrated by simulation results in comparison with PI controller and predictive controller with constant delay.

Authors:

• Jasmin Velagic

Keywords:

• Predictive control
• adaptation
• communication delay
• communication network.

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