A Controller Synthesis Framework for Weakly-Hard Control Systems

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Main Authors: Seidel, Marc, Maggio, Martina, Allgöwer, Frank
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author Seidel, Marc
Maggio, Martina
Allgöwer, Frank
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Maggio, Martina
Allgöwer, Frank
contents Deadline misses are more common in real-world systems than one may expect. The weakly-hard task model has become a standard abstraction to describe and analyze how often these misses occur, and has been especially used in control applications. Most existing control approaches check whether a controller manages to stabilize the system it controls when its implementation occasionally misses deadlines. However, they usually do not incorporate deadline-overrun knowledge during the controller synthesis process. In this paper, we present a framework that explicitly integrates weakly-hard constraints into the control design. Our method supports various overrun handling strategies and guarantees stability and performance under weakly-hard constraints. We validate the synthesized controllers on a Furuta pendulum, a representative control benchmark. The results show that constraint-aware controllers significantly outperform traditional designs, demonstrating the benefits of proactive and informed synthesis for overrun-aware real-time control.
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spellingShingle A Controller Synthesis Framework for Weakly-Hard Control Systems
Seidel, Marc
Maggio, Martina
Allgöwer, Frank
Systems and Control
Deadline misses are more common in real-world systems than one may expect. The weakly-hard task model has become a standard abstraction to describe and analyze how often these misses occur, and has been especially used in control applications. Most existing control approaches check whether a controller manages to stabilize the system it controls when its implementation occasionally misses deadlines. However, they usually do not incorporate deadline-overrun knowledge during the controller synthesis process. In this paper, we present a framework that explicitly integrates weakly-hard constraints into the control design. Our method supports various overrun handling strategies and guarantees stability and performance under weakly-hard constraints. We validate the synthesized controllers on a Furuta pendulum, a representative control benchmark. The results show that constraint-aware controllers significantly outperform traditional designs, demonstrating the benefits of proactive and informed synthesis for overrun-aware real-time control.
title A Controller Synthesis Framework for Weakly-Hard Control Systems
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20146