Stable Region Analysis of Networked Control Systems with Uniform Quantization

In this paper the effects of quantization in an important class of networked control systems called model-based networked control systems (MB-NCS) are considered. The MB-NCS architecture uses an explicit model of the plant in the controller in order to reduce the network traffic, while attempting to prevent excessive degradation. That is, the data transmitted represent areas within a region where the state of the plant and model are known to be. Simulation examples are used throughout to illustrate the main results.