A New Approach for Scheduling of Networked Control System

In Network Control System (NCS), transfer of control data between sensor to controller and controller to actuator is done through a shared communication medium. The sharing of communication bandwidth will induce unavoidable data latency and might degrade the control performance. The performance of the control loops depends not only on the design of the control algorithms, but also on the scheduling of the shared network resource. A modified scheduling algorithm is proposed in this study to reduce communication delays and to maintain the stability of the system.