Wireless Control

Description of research

While traditional wired communication technologies have played a crucial role in industrial monitoring and control networks over the past few decades, they are increasingly proving to be inadequate to meet the highly dynamic and stringent demands of today’s industrial applications primarily due to the very rigid nature of wired infrastructures. Wireless technology, however, through its increased pervasiveness, has the potential to revolutionize the industry not only by mitigating the problems faced by wired solutions but also by introducing a whole new class of applications. While present day wireless technologies made some preliminary inroads in the monitoring domain, they still have severe limitations especially when distributed, real-time, and reliable control operations are concerned.

This research addresses the main requirements of industrial automation wireless networks that need to be in place before obtaining a wireless network that can be used for creating reliable, real-time, distributed control operation between the sensors and actuators.

Advisor(s)

Prof. Dr. Paul J. M. Havinga

Duration

01-04-2010 / 01-04-2014

Funding institution

CTIT

Strategic Research Orientation

WiSe - Wireless and Sensor Systems

Links to relevant web pages:

http://ps.cs.utwente.nl/

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