Abstract: A major trend in modern industrial and commercial systems is to integrate computing, communication, and control into different levels of machine/factory operations and information processes. It is widely recognized that Networks and Control is a very challenging and promising research field; for example, see the expert panel report on “Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems”. Broadly speaking, this covers two areas: the first is control over computer/communication networks, i.e. the study of control problems in networks, such as for example congestion control, routing control, etc; and the second is networked control systems. This tutorial is on this second area. The main topics covered in this 2-hours tutorial include: (1) Networked Control Systems (NCSs): a new research area and applications; (2) random delay, possible data packet loss and asynchronous multi-rate sampling in NCSs; (3) simulation study of NCSs; (4) a new NCS simulation framework and the software package developed by the presenter; and (5) an introduction to time-delayed control systems. More information can be found from:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/taiyang/

Brief Biography of the Organizer:
Dr Tai Cheng Yang received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, both in control engineering, in 1981 from Shanghai Tong-Ji University, China, and in 1987 from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, U.K., respectively. Dr. Yang jointed the School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Sussex, U.K., as a lecturer in 1990. He was promoted to a Reader in the School in 1999. Dr Yang had ten-year industrial experience before he started his academic carer. He has awarded a number of research grants and has 98 publications. His current research interests include networked control system, power system control and control applications.