PhD Position Chaotic Sampling for Secure and Sustainable Networked Control Systems
open universiteit · Delft, NL
Engineers usually want predictability. This project embraces chaos – Excited about control theory? Then join us to build the math of chaotic sampling for greener and more secure control systems. Job description Wireless communication can make control systems cheaper and easier to deploy, but bandwidth and energy limitations, as well as vulnerability to cyber attacks, restrict its use in critical applications. Event based control approaches can greatly reduce communication by transmitting information only when required, while potentially generating complex, chaotic sampling patterns. This project investigates how such patterns can be designed systematically to make communication timing difficult for an external observer to predict, while maintaining closed loop stability and using network resources efficiently. In this PhD project, you will develop mathematical theory and computational methods for the analysis and design of chaotic sampling mechanisms in networked control systems. You will study conditions under which event based sampling exhibits chaotic behavior and how to design controller and sampler strategies that account for stability, communication rate, and measures of timi