Distributed actuator reconfiguration in networked control systems*

In this paper, we address the problem of distributed reconfiguration of first-order networked control systems under actuator faults. In particular, we consider the scenario where a network of actuators cooperates in order to recover from actuator faults. Such recovery is performed through a reconfiguration which minimizes the performance loss due to actuator faults, while guaranteing that the same state trajectory is obtained. The design of the distributed reconfiguration scheme is proposed and evaluated in numerical examples.