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On the structural controllability of distributed systems with local structure changes

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This paper analyzes the structural controllability of distributed systems, which are composed of many subsystems and have complicated interconnections. Different from traditional methods in centralized systems where global information is required, the method proposed in this paper is based on local structural properties and simplified interconnections, by which the computational burden is highly decreased and the implementation is tractable. Moreover, a necessary condition for global structural controllability is obtained by combining local information. When the structure in any subsystems is changed, only corresponding local information needs to be re-evaluated instead of whole distributed systems, which makes the analysis easier. Finally, examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.

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This work was supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61233004, 61590924, 61473184).

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  1. Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education of China, Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Jianbin Mu, Shaoyuan Li & Jing Wu

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Mu, J., Li, S. & Wu, J. On the structural controllability of distributed systems with local structure changes. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 61, 052201 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-017-9166-0

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