Networked control and industrial applications [Special section introduction

Abstract

The purpose of this “Special Section on Networked Control and Industrial Applications” of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics is to present some up-to-date analysis and synthesis approaches to NCSs, which can improve the efficiency, flexibility, and reliability so that the installation, reconfiguration and maintenance time, and costs can be reduced through constrained communication network and distributed control architecture. This Special Section consists of 12 papers, which can be divided into two parts. The fist part, which contains five papers, mainly focuses on the analysis and design issues of classical NCSs, and the second part, which contains seven papers, addresses the networked multi-agent systems with applications to multirobot systems and power systems. A brief overview of the papers included in the Special Section is provided as follows.