Model-Free Control as a Service and the Internet of Things (IoT): Some preliminary considerations

Cédric Join (1, 2) , Michel Fliess (3, 2) , Frédéric Chaxel (4)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
2 AL.I.E.N. - ALgèbre pour Identification & Estimation Numériques
3 LIX - Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École polytechnique [Palaiseau]
4 UL - Université de Lorraine

Model-Free Control (MFC), which is easy to implement both from software and hardware viewpoints, permits the introduction of a high level control synthesis for IoT (Internet of Things) and Industry 4.0. The choice of the User Diagram Protocol (UDP) as the Internet Protocol permits to neglect the latency. In spite of most severe packet losses, convincing computer simulations show that MFC exhibits a good Quality of Service (QoS).

Keywords: Model-Free Control; Cyber-Physical Systems; Industry 4.0; Internet Protocol; Internet of Things; Packet Loss; UDP; Cloud Computing; Latency; Intelligent Controllers

Domains: Emerging Technologies [cs.ET]; Systems and Control [cs.SY]; Automatic Control Engineering; Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]; Optimization and Control [math.OC]

Cédric Join, Michel Fliess, Frédéric Chaxel. Model-Free Control as a Service and the Internet of Things (IoT): Some preliminary considerations. [Research Report] LIX -- Ecole polytechnique. 2019. ⟨hal-02356001⟩