Towards Event-Triggered NMPC for Efficient 6G Communications: Experimental Results and Open Problems

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Main Authors: Püttschneider, Jens, Golembiewski, Julian, Wagner, Niklas A., Wietfeld, Christian, Faulwasser, Timm
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author Püttschneider, Jens
Golembiewski, Julian
Wagner, Niklas A.
Wietfeld, Christian
Faulwasser, Timm
author_facet Püttschneider, Jens
Golembiewski, Julian
Wagner, Niklas A.
Wietfeld, Christian
Faulwasser, Timm
contents Networked control systems enable real-time control and coordination of distributed systems, leveraging the low latency, high reliability, and massive connectivity offered by 5G and future 6G networks. Applications include autonomous vehicles, robotics, industrial automation, and smart grids. Despite networked control algorithms admitting nominal stability guarantees even in the presence of delays and packet dropouts, their practical performance still heavily depends on the specific characteristics and conditions of the underlying network. To achieve the desired performance while efficiently using communication resources, co-design of control and communication is pivotal. Although periodic schemes, where communication instances are fixed, can provide reliable control performance, unnecessary transmissions, when updates are not needed, result in inefficient usage of network resources. In this paper, we investigate the potential for co-design of model predictive control and network communication. To this end, we design and implement an event-triggered nonlinear model predictive controller for stabilizing a Furuta pendulum communicating over a tailored open radio access network 6G research platform. We analyze the control performance as well as network utilization under varying channel conditions and event-triggering criteria. Additionally, we analyze the network-induced delay pattern and its interaction with the event-triggered controller. Our results show that the event-triggered control scheme achieves similar performance to periodic control with reduced communication demand.
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spellingShingle Towards Event-Triggered NMPC for Efficient 6G Communications: Experimental Results and Open Problems
Püttschneider, Jens
Golembiewski, Julian
Wagner, Niklas A.
Wietfeld, Christian
Faulwasser, Timm
Systems and Control
Networking and Internet Architecture
Optimization and Control
Networked control systems enable real-time control and coordination of distributed systems, leveraging the low latency, high reliability, and massive connectivity offered by 5G and future 6G networks. Applications include autonomous vehicles, robotics, industrial automation, and smart grids. Despite networked control algorithms admitting nominal stability guarantees even in the presence of delays and packet dropouts, their practical performance still heavily depends on the specific characteristics and conditions of the underlying network. To achieve the desired performance while efficiently using communication resources, co-design of control and communication is pivotal. Although periodic schemes, where communication instances are fixed, can provide reliable control performance, unnecessary transmissions, when updates are not needed, result in inefficient usage of network resources. In this paper, we investigate the potential for co-design of model predictive control and network communication. To this end, we design and implement an event-triggered nonlinear model predictive controller for stabilizing a Furuta pendulum communicating over a tailored open radio access network 6G research platform. We analyze the control performance as well as network utilization under varying channel conditions and event-triggering criteria. Additionally, we analyze the network-induced delay pattern and its interaction with the event-triggered controller. Our results show that the event-triggered control scheme achieves similar performance to periodic control with reduced communication demand.
title Towards Event-Triggered NMPC for Efficient 6G Communications: Experimental Results and Open Problems
topic Systems and Control
Networking and Internet Architecture
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18589