Panagiotis D. Christofides
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Augmenting dedicated control systems with
real-time sensor
and actuator networks poses a number of new challenges in control system design that cannot be addressed with traditional process
control methods, including: a) the handling of additional, potentially
asynchronous and/or delayed
measurements in the overall networked control system, and b) the
substantial increase in the number of process state variables, manipulated inputs, and measurements which may impede the ability of
centralized control systems to carry out real-time calculations within th