[HTML][HTML] An overview of structural systems theory

G Ramos, AP Aguiar, S Pequito - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper provides an overview of the research conducted in the context of structural (or
structured) systems. These are parametrized models used to assess and design system …

Structural systems theory: an overview of the last 15 years

G Ramos, AP Aguiar, S Pequito - arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.11223, 2020 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we provide an overview of the research conducted in the context of structural
systems since the latest survey by Dion et al. in 2003. We systematically consider all the …

Structural reconfigurability analysis of multirotor UAVs after actuator failures

D Vey, J Lunze - 2015 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper presents a reconfigurability analysis of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) with four and six rotors. A method for structural reconfigurability analysis is …

A graphical characterization of structurally controllable linear systems with dependent parameters

F Liu, AS Morse - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One version of the concept of structural controllability defined for single-input systems by Lin
and subsequently generalized to multi-input systems by others, states that a parameterized …

Signed directed graph‐based hierarchical modelling and fault propagation analysis for large‐scale systems

F Yang, D Xiao, SL Shah - IET Control Theory & Applications, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The signed directed graph (SDG) model can be considered as a qualitative model to
describe the variables and their cause–effect relations in a continuous process. Such …

Minimum structural controllability problems of complex networks

H Yin, S Zhang - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016 - Elsevier
Controllability of complex networks has been one of the attractive research areas for both
network and control community, and has yielded many promising and significant results in …

Block-based minimum input design for the structural controllability of complex networks

T Bai, S Li, Y Zou, X Yin - Automatica, 2019 - Elsevier
Traditional control system design to complex networks is generally implemented by
integrated structural analysis aiming at a global network. However, such a global method …

Stochastic activity networks for performance evaluation of fault-tolerant systems

S Maza - Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The need for high-performance, productive and dependable industrial systems guided
engineers to design complex operational architectures. Many features and subsystems are …

On the structural controllability of distributed systems with local structure changes

J Mu, S Li, J Wu - Science China Information Sciences, 2018 - Springer
This paper analyzes the structural controllability of distributed systems, which are composed
of many subsystems and have complicated interconnections. Different from traditional …

Generic methodology for the probabilistic reliability assessment of some structural properties: a graph theoretical approach

M Dakil, C Simon, T Boukhobza - International Journal of Systems …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The graphical characterisation of many important structural properties, such as
controllability, observability, diagnosability of many kinds of structured systems, uses mainly …