Online Time Delay Estimation in Networked Control Systems with Application to Bilateral Teleoperation

The problem of forward and backward time delays is significantly important for both control and feedback loop of networked control systems. These time delays give rise to latency in performance and thereby may destabilize the system. Therefore numerous methods have been proposed about time delay identification/estimation and compensation for networked control systems, especially for bilateral teleoperation systems. However, most compensation methods have been accomplished by considering offline time delay estimation for linear/nonlinear time delay control systems.