A Priority-Based Distributed Channel Access Mechanism for Control over CAN-like Networks

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A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa

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2022-01

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2021 European Control Conference, ECC 2021, pp. 176-182

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In this work, we study the distributed channel access problem for multiple subsystems equipped with smart sensors sharing a capacity-limited communication network to perform their control tasks. We propose a fully distributed scheme to use the limited communication resources efficiently with respect to a quadratic cost which reflects the control performance. More specifically, we adopt a priority assignment scheme which consists of two layers: (i) a dynamic priority that corresponds to the time-varying criticality of transmission for each subsystem, and (ii) a pre-specified static priority which ensures that channel access is collision-free. We first demonstrate how the dynamic priorities can be manipulated to allocate the resources with respect to the chosen cost. Next, we propose a synchronization method which enables fully distribute implementation over controller area network (CAN) hardware. We validate the compatibility of our method with the mature hardware technology of CAN by hardware-in-the-loop simulations. Finally, we demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed scheme and evaluate its performance in large-scale networks via simulation.

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Funding Information: This work was supported by the Academy of Finland under Grant 320043. The work of T. Charalambous was supported by the Academy of Finland under Grant 317726. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 EUCA.

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Controller area network, Cost of information loss, Distributed channel access, Networked control systems

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Wang, S, Farjam, T & Charalambous, T 2022, A Priority-Based Distributed Channel Access Mechanism for Control over CAN-like Networks . in 2021 European Control Conference, ECC 2021 . TU Delft Open, pp. 176-182, European Control Conference, Delft, Netherlands, 29/06/2021 . https://doi.org/10.23919/ECC54610.2021.9655068