Study on the Congestion Controller for Timedelay Networked Control Systems with External Disturbances

A successive approximation approach (SAA) is developed to obtain a new congestion controller for the singularly perturbed time-delay networked control systems affected by external disturbances. Based on the slow-fast decomposition theory of singular perturbations, the system is first decomposed into a fast non-delay subsystem and a slow time-delay subsystem with disturbances. Then, the perturbation approach is proposed to solve the slow-time scale time-delay optimal control problem, and the feedforward compensation technique is used to reject the external disturbances. We obtain the conditions of existence and uniqueness of the feedforward and feedback composite control (FFCC) law. The FFCC law consists of linear analytic functions and a time-delay compensation term which is a series sum of adjoint vectors. The linear analytic functions can be found by solving a Riccati matrix equation and a Sylvester equation respectively. The compensation term can be approximately obtained by an iterative formula of adjoint vector equations. A reduced-order disturbance observer is constructed to make the FFCC law physically realizable. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed design approach.