Controllability of Kronecker product networks

Y Hao, Q Wang, Z Duan, G Chen - Automatica, 2019 - Elsevier
A necessary and sufficient condition is derived for the controllability of Kronecker product
networks, where the factor networks are general directed graphs. The condition explicitly …

Laplacian eigenvalue allocation through asymmetric weights in acyclic leader-follower networks

G Parlangeli - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper tackles the eigenvalue allocation problem through an appropriate choice of the
edge weights for the class of combinatorially-symmetric Laplacian matrices of acyclic …

Discernibility of topological variations for networked LTI systems

Y Hao, Q Wang, Z Duan, G Chen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the discernibility of topological variations for networked linear time-invariant
(LTI) systems is investigated, where the network topology is general, and the nodes have …

Optimizing network topology for average controllability

MV Srighakollapu, RK Kalaimani… - Systems & Control Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
We address the problem of identifying a network topology of a networked system for
maximizing a controllability measure, the average controllability under constraints on the …

A distributed algorithm for the assignment of the Laplacian spectrum for path graphs

G Parlangeli - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we bring forward a distributed algorithm for the assignment of a prescribed
Laplacian spectrum for path graphs by means of asymmetric weight assignment. We first …

On the computation of the distance-based lower bound on strong structural controllability in networks

M Shabbir, W Abbas… - 2019 IEEE 58th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A network of agents with linear dynamics is strong structurally controllable if agents can be
maneuvered from any initial state to any final state independently of the coupling strengths …

Controllability-Gramian submatrices for a network consensus model

S Roy, M Xue - Systems & Control Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Principal submatrices of the controllability Gramian and their inverses are examined, for a
network-consensus model with inputs at a subset of network nodes. Several properties of …

Observability-blocking controllers for network synchronization processes

A Al Maruf, S Roy - 2019 American Control Conference (ACC), 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design of local state-feedback control systems in dynamical networks to block
observability at remote nodes is studied, in the context of a canonical linear network …

Comments on “Upper and lower bounds for controllable subspaces of networks of diffusively coupled agents”

M Xue, S Roy - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A condition for controllability of a network of diffusively coupled linear agents with sparse
actuation, which was developed in, is examined. An example is presented which …

Computation of the distance-based bound on strong structural controllability in networks

M Shabbir, W Abbas, AY Yazıcıoğlu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we study the problem of computing a tight lower bound on the dimension of the
strong structurally controllable subspace (SSCS) in networks with Laplacian dynamics. The …