This paper discusses the impact of network architecture on control performance in a class of
distributed control systems called networked control systems (NCSs) and provides design …

Many different network types have been promoted for use in control systems. In this article,
we compare three of them: the Ethernet bus, with carrier sense multiple access with collision …

The Berkeley lower extremity exoskeleton (BLEEX) is a load-carrying and energetically
autonomous human exoskeleton that, in this first generation prototype, carries up to a 34 kg …

A major trend in modern industrial and commercial systems is to integrate computing,
communication, and control into different levels of machine/factory operations and …

Many places in the world are too rugged or enclosed for vehicles to access. Even today,
material transport to such areas is limited to manual labor and beasts of burden. Modern …

Cost related to the wiring of sensors and actuators in the manufacturing industry is rapidly
increasing with the number of field devices. Complex engineering as well as cable wear and …

The recent performance improvements of wireless communication systems are making
possible the use of such networks for industrial applications, which typically impose severe …

The controller area network (CAN) is a real-time fieldbus network which today is very
popular in industrial environments because of its very appealing characteristics and low …

PROFIBUS is an international standard (IEC 61158) for factory-floor communications, with
some hundreds of thousands of world-wide installations. However, it does not include any …

This paper discusses the impact of network architecture on control performance in a class of
distributed control systems called Networked Control Systems (NCS), and provides design …