A Scheduling Application for Networked Control Systems

Network-induced delays make the analysis and design of an NCS complex. Scheduling the shared network resource effectively is a valid means to reduce the network-induced delays, especially for the NCS with limited network resource. The paper presents an integration scheduling algorithm for networked control systems, the method considering some complex issues in NCSs, such as many types of date transmission, the maximum allowable sampling period, period jitter and node compute time, and proposing few assumptions in the paper, the above features make the method be practical. Finally, the paper uses an experiment example to show the validity of the method and simply discusses the future study works.