Networked Control Systems. Cloud Control and Secure Control

Table of Contents

1. An Overview
2. Networked Control Systems' Fundamentals
3. Cloud Computing
4. Control from the Cloud
5. Secure Control Design Techniques
6. Case Studies
7. Smart Grid Infrastructures
8. Secure Resilient Control Strategies
9. Cyberphysical Security Methods
10. Appendix

Authors

Magdi S. Mahmoud Distinguished Professor, Systems Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Magdi S. Mahmoud is a distinguished professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He has been faculty member at different universities worldwide including Egypt (CU, AUC), Kuwait (KU), UAE (UAEU), UK (UMIST), USA (Pitt, Case Western), Singapore (Nanyang), and Australia (Adelaide). He lectured in Venezuela (Caracas), Germany (Hanover), UK (Kent), USA (UoSA), Canada (Montreal) and China (BIT, Yanshan). He is the principal author of 51 books, inclusive book-chapters, and author/co-author of more than 610 peer-reviewed papers. He is a fellow of the IEE and a senior member of the IEEE, the CEI (UK). He is currently actively engaged in teaching and research in the development of modern methodologies to distributed control and filtering, networked control systems, fault-tolerant systems, cyberphysical systems, and information technology. Yuanqing Xia Professor, School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. Yuanqing Xia has worked in the Department of Automatic Control, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, since 2004, first as an associate professor, and, since 2008, as a professor. He is a Yangtze River Scholar and Chair Professor of the Beijing Institute of Technology since 2016. His current research interests are in the fields of networked control systems, robust control, sliding mode control, active disturbance rejection control, biomedical signal processing, and cloud control systems.