EDA-based output tracking control for networked control systems with time delays and packet losses

This paper is concerned with the output tracking problem of a class of networked control systems (NCSs) in the presence of time delays and packet losses. The motivation comes from that existing networked output tracking methods can not work very well if there is modeling error or non-zero disturbance in NCSs. To deal with the aforementioned issues, an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) based output tracking control approach, which is more robust to modeling error and has better disturbance rejection capabilities, is proposed in this paper. Simulation and experimental results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.