@misc{484,
  author = {Nicholas Kottenstette and Joseph Hall and Xenofon Koutsoukos and Panos Antsaklis and Janos Sztipanovits},
  title = {Digital Control of Multiple Discrete Passive Plants Over Networks},
  abstract = {This paper provides a passivity based framework to synthesize lm2-stable
digital control networks in which m strictly-output passive controllers can control n−m
strictly-output passive plants. The communication between the plants and controllers
can tolerate time varying delay and data dropouts. In particular, we introduce a power
junction which allows even a single controller (typically designed to control a single
plant) to accurately control the output of multiple plants even if the corresponding
dynamics of each plant is different. In addition to the power-junction we also introduce
a passive downsampler (PDS) and passive upsampler (PUS) in order to further reduce
networking traffic. A detailed (soft real-time) set of examples shows the tracking
performance of the networked control system.},
  year = {2009},
  journal = {Technical Report},
  pages = {1-16},
  month = {03/2009},
  publisher = {Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University},
  address = {Nashville, TN},
}