The vast majority of control systems built today are embedded; that is, they rely on built-in, special-purpose digital computers to close their feedback loops. Embedded systems are common in aircraft, factories, chemical processing plants, and even in carsa single high-end automobile may contain over eighty different computers. The design of embedded controllers and of the intricate, automated communication networks that support them raises many new questionspractical, as well as theoreticalabout network protocols, compatibility of operating systems, and ways to maximize the effectiveness of the embedded hardware.

This handbook, the first of its kind, provides engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, and students a broad, comprehensive source of information and technology to address many questions and aspects of embedded and networked control. Separated into six main sections Fundamentals, Hardware, Software, Theory, Networking, and Applications this work unifies into a single reference many scattered articles, websites, and specification sheets. Also included are case studies, experiments, and examples that give a multifaceted view of the subject, encompassing computation and communication considerations.

The first book of its kind to provide a broad, comprehensive source of information about embedded and networked control Many scattered articles, websites, and specification sheets are unified into a single volume information that might otherwise be difficult to find Shows the reader where to start and how to navigate the extensive literature on the subject of embedded and networked control Self-contained, sharply-focused articles; clear structure and presentation of concepts in intuitive order Information about commercially available tools and hardware Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Fundamentals.- Fundamentals of Dynamical Systems.- Control of Single-Input Single-Output Systems.- Basics of Sampling and Quantization.- Discrete-Event Systems.- to Hybrid Systems.- Finite Automata.- Basics of Computer Architecture.- Real-Time Scheduling for Embedded Systems.- Network Fundamentals.- Hardware.- Basics of Data Acquisition and Control.- Programmable Logic Controllers.- Digital Signal Processors.- Microcontrollers.- SOPCs: Systems on Programmable Chips.- Software.- Fundamentals of RTOS-Based Digital Controller Implementation.- Implementation-Aware Embedded Control Systems.- From Control Loops to Real-Time Programs.- Embedded Real-Time Control via MATLAB, Simulink, and xPC Target.- Lab VIEW Real-Time for Networked/Embedded Control.- Control Loops in RTLinux.- Theory.- An Introduction to Hybrid Automata.- An Overview of Hybrid Systems Control.- Temporal Logic Model Checking.- Switched Systems.- Feedback Control with Communication Constraints.- Networked Control Systems: A Model-Based Approach.- Control Issues in Systems with Loop Delays.- Networking.- Network Protocols for Networked Control Systems.- Control Using Feedback over Wireless Ethernet and Bluetooth.- Bluetooth in Control.- Embedded Sensor Networks.- Applications.- Vehicle Applications of Controller Area Network.- Control of Autonomous Mobile Robots.- Wireless Control with Bluetooth.- The Cornell RoboCup Robot Soccer Team: 19992003.