Resources & Links

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Tools & Testbeds

• AgentPlant simulator by NetBots with: Case Western Reserve University.
• TrueTime simulator with: Department of Automatic Control at Lund Institute of Technology, SWEDEN.
• HotDec with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Caltech Multi-Vehicle Wireless Testbed (MVWT) with: California Institute of Technology.
• IT Convergence Lab with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• NS tools for NCS: Dalhousie University, CANADA.

Books & Courses

• Real-Time Courses with Boston University, Course.
• Networked Control Systems Course with University of Ulson, KOREA, Course.
• Real-time Computer Control Systems with Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, SWEDEN, Course.
• Design of Real-Time Control Systems  with National Taiwan University, TAIWAN, Course.
• Computer Control: An Overview, technical report, PDF (720 KB), Report.
• Limited Data Rate in Control Systems with Networks, by Hideaki Ishii & Bruce A. Francis, Book . 
• Computer-Controlled Systems: Theory and Design , by Astrom & Wittenmark, Book. 
• Real Time Computer Control: An Introduction , by Bennett Book. 
• Real-Time Systems, by C. M. Krishna & Kang G. Shin, Book. 
• Digital Control using Digital Signal Processing , by Farzad Nekoogar & Gene Moriarty, Book. 
• Embedded System Design: A Unified Hardware/Software Introduction , by Frank Vahid & Tony D. Givargis, Book. 
• Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design , by Wayne Wolf, Book. 
• Optimal Sampled-Data Control Systems ,  PDF (2.10 MB) , Book. 
• The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet , edited by Ken Goldberg, Book.