Control/Communication Codesign of Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems

In modern cyber-physical systems (CPS), multiple control applications typically share a common distributed computing platform, often spanning an edge-cloud continuum. This transition from dedicated, federated architectures to integrated platforms introduces complex timing behaviors, particularly variable and increased communication delays. These delays—arising from resource sharing and long-range 5G communications—can degrade control performance and, if left unmanaged, even destabilize the system. This talk presents a control/communication codesign framework that integrates delay compensation into both controller synthesis and task scheduling. Additionally, it introduces a design space exploration technique for generating high-quality, stable CPS designs on distributed platforms. By explicitly accounting for the timing effects of shared computational and communication resources, this approach ensures robust and predictable control performance, even in highly dynamic environments.