Full-Loop AoI-Based Joint Design of Control and Deterministic Transmission for Industrial CPS

For improving the performance of industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPS), the joint design of control and transmission has been demonstrated as an efficient mechanism. However, the existing metrics in recent joint design works lack completeness and accuracy, which leads to the challenge of improving the stability and network resource utilization of ICPS. This article proposes a full-loop age of information (FL-AoI)-based control and transmission joint design architecture for multisubsystem ICPS integrating multihop network. The FL-AoI depicts the timeliness of information by state delay, input delay, and event-triggered status in full-loop ICPS. To avoid the instability caused by the input delay, we design a linear-quadratic regulator (LQR)-based controller by the FL-AoI and derive a feasible region of the FL-AoI for guaranteeing the stability of control systems. To ensure the accuracy of FL-AoI, we propose a routing and scheduling policy based on time-sensitive networking (TSN) for the deterministic bound of delay. Finally, we propose an optimal event-triggered policy based on FL-AoI for minimizing the data transmission amount while ensuring the system stability. The evaluation results show that our strategy improves the nonlinear and nonscalar control systems' stability while reducing the network burden of TSN compared with the traditional joint design strategies.