Synthesizing communication plans for reachability and safety specifications

Abstract

We propose control and communication strategies for nonlinear networked control systems subject to state and input constraints. The objective is to steer the state of the system towards a prescribed target set in finite time (\textit{reachability}), while at the same time remaining inside a safety set for all time (\textit{safety}). By leveraging the notion of $\delta$-ISS control Lyapunov function, we derive a sufficient condition to generate a communication scheduling, such that the resulting state trajectory guarantees reachability and safety. Moreover, in order to alleviate computational burden we present a way to find a suitable communication scheduling by implementing abstraction schemes and standard graph search methodologies. Simulation examples validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

submitted to IEEE TAC