학술논문

Partial controllability of network dynamical systems with unilateral inputs
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 2252-2257, 2022
Subject
Mathematics - Optimization and Control
Mathematical Physics
Language
Abstract
Our ability to control network dynamical systems is often hindered by constraints on the number and nature of the available control actions, which make controlling the whole network unfeasible. In this manuscript, we focus on the case where unilateral inputs are exerted on a subset of the network nodes. Leveraging the observation that, different from the case of subsystems, unilateral node reachability and controllability are equivalent, we provide conditions for a given node subset to be unilaterally controllable. The theoretical findings are then employed to develop a computationally efficient heuristic to select the nodes where the unilateral inputs should be injected