Internet-based Control Systems

Internet-based Control Systems addresses the challenges that need to be overcome before the Internet can be beneficially used not only for remote control and monitoring of industrial plants but also of domestic appliances and in medicine and education. New design issues such as requirement specification, architecture selection and user-interface design are dealt with. Irregular data transmission and data loss, and whole-system instability may result from Internet time-delay; this book guards against such phenomena. Specific advice for avoiding security breaches in an Internet-based control system are given.
Practical perspectives are explored both through case studies in several chapters and through real applications including: virtual supervision parameter control of a water tank system; model predictive control for a process control unit; remote integration of real-time software; robot arm control; simulator for a catalytic reactor; and monitoring and control of a home environment.