Embedded Model Control of Networked Control Systems: an Experimental Case-study -- Stability analysis and further results

In Networked Control Systems (NCS), the absence of physical communication links in the loop leads to relevant issues, such as measurement delays and asynchronous execution of the control commands. These issues may lead to unwanted control behaviours. This ArXiv paper is intended to give additional results to the work presented in “Embedded Model Control of Networked Control Systems: an Experimental Case-study”. The last one presents an original approach, based on the Embedded Model Control, to deal with experimental scenarios characterized by asynchronous control timing. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated with a differential-drive robot, first with high-fidelity simulations and finally with several experimental tests. Specifically, the present work aims to study the stability analysis of the EMC experimental setup and to give further experimental results, to complement those presented in the main paper, “Embedded Model Control of Networked Control Systems: an Experimental Case-study”.