Advanced design scheme for fault tolerant distributed networked control systems

This paper addresses the integrated design of fault tolerant distributed networked control systems (NCS). The NCS under consideration consists of two levels. At the lower level, sensors, actuators and local controllers are embedded and networked by sub-nets. They coordinated and supevised by the control stations located at the higher level. The core of the design scheme is the integrated design of communication, control and fault diagnosis systems in a multilayer structure.