A probabilistic approach to stability and stabilization of networked control systems

In this paper, a probabilistic approach is proposed to study the modeling, stability, and stabilization problems for networked control systems (NCSs) with simultaneous random network communication delay and data dropout. Different from existing modeling approaches, the proposed NCSs model naturally captures the stochastic characteristics of the considered NCSs by taking into account the effects of the random network communication delay and data dropout. Based on the developed NCSs model, necessary and sufficient conditions of stability analysis, state, and output feedback stabilization problems are tackled. Moreover, necessary and sufficient stability and stabilization conditions are also presented for the case when the occurrence probabilities of delay and data dropout are partially known. Finally, three numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness and the reduced conservatism of the proposed method. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.