Quantized Predictive Control over Erasure Channels

We study a control architecture for linear time-invariant plants which are affected by random disturbances. The distinguishing aspect of the situation at hand is that an unreliable data-rate limited network is placed between controller and the plant input. To achieve robustness with respect to i.i.d. dropouts, the controller transmits data packets containing quantized plant input predictions. These minimize a finite horizon cost function and are provided by an appropriate optimal entropy coded dithered lattice vector quantizer. Within this context, we derive an equivalent noise-shaping model of the closed loop system. This model is employed for the design and analysis of the vector quantizer used by the controller. ©2009 IEEE.