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Decentralized pole assignment for interconnected systems
Given a general proper interconnected system,
this paper aims to design a LTI decentralized controller to
place the modes of the closed-loop system at pre-determined
locations. To this end, it is first assumed that the structural
graph of the system is strongly connected. Then, it is shown
applying generic static local controllers to any number of
subsystems will not introduce new decentralized fixed modes
(DFM) in the resultant system, although it has fewer inputoutput
stations compared to the original system. This means
that if there are some subsystems whose control costs are
highly dependent on the complexity of the control law, then
generic static controllers can be applied to such subsystems,
without changing the characteristics of the system in terms of
the fixed modes. As a direct application of this result, in the
case when the system has no DFMs, one can apply generic static
controllers to all but one subsystem, and the resultant system
will be controllable and observable through that subsystem.
Now, a simple observer-based local controller corresponding to
this subsystem can be designed to displace the modes of the
entire system arbitrarily. Similar results can also be attained
for a system whose structural graph is not strongly connected.
It is worth mentioning that similar concepts are deployed in the
literature for the special case of strictly proper systems, but as
noted in the relevant papers, extension of the results to general
proper systems is not trivial. This demonstrates the significance
of the present work
Static Output Feedback: On Essential Feasible Information Patterns
In this paper, for linear time-invariant plants, where a collection of
possible inputs and outputs are known a priori, we address the problem of
determining the communication between outputs and inputs, i.e., information
patterns, such that desired control objectives of the closed-loop system (for
instance, stabilizability) through static output feedback may be ensured.
We address this problem in the structural system theoretic context. To this
end, given a specified structural pattern (locations of zeros/non-zeros) of the
plant matrices, we introduce the concept of essential information patterns,
i.e., communication patterns between outputs and inputs that satisfy the
following conditions: (i) ensure arbitrary spectrum assignment of the
closed-loop system, using static output feedback constrained to the information
pattern, for almost all possible plant instances with the specified structural
pattern; and (ii) any communication failure precludes the resulting information
pattern from attaining the pole placement objective in (i).
Subsequently, we study the problem of determining essential information
patterns. First, we provide several necessary and sufficient conditions to
verify whether a specified information pattern is essential or not. Further, we
show that such conditions can be verified by resorting to algorithms with
polynomial complexity (in the dimensions of the state, input and output).
Although such verification can be performed efficiently, it is shown that the
problem of determining essential information patterns is in general NP-hard.
The main results of the paper are illustrated through examples
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Selection of Decentralised Control Structures: Structural Methodologies and Diagnostics
The paper aims at formulating an integrated approach for the selection of decentralized control structures using a number of structural criteria aiming at facilitating the design of decentralised control schemes. This requires the selection of decentralisation structure that will allow the generic solvability of a variety of decentralised control problems, such as pole assignment by decentralised output feedback. The approach is based on the use of necessary and sufficient conditions for generic solvability and exact solvability of decentralised control problems. The generic solvability conditions lead to characterisations of inputs and outputs channel partitions. The exact solvability conditions use criteria on avoiding the presence of fixed modes, as well as necessary conditions for pole assignment, expressed in terms of properties of Plϋcker invariants and Markov type matrices. The structural approach provides a classification of desirable input and output partitions based on structural criteria and it is embedded in an overall framework that may involve aspects related to large scale design
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