Control over wireless networks
G.W. Irwin · 2006
The field of control has seen huge advances over the past 50 years, leveraging technological improvements in sensing and computation with breakthroughs in the underlying principles and mathematics. Nowadays embedded processors, sensors, and networking hardware are becoming increasing cheap and pervasive, enabling the development of increasing complex, intelligent and autonomous systems for monitoring and control. In networked control systems, for example, strong interest in wireless solutions is driving the development of this technology as a potential replacement for the current generation of wired industrial networks.