학술논문

Energy-Related Controllability of Signed Complex Networks With Laplacian Dynamics
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr. Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on. 66(7):3325-3330 Jul, 2021
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Controllability
Laplace equations
Complex networks
Energy measurement
Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions
Control energy
network controllability
signed networks
Language
ISSN
0018-9286
1558-2523
2334-3303
Abstract
This article investigates energy-related controllability of complex networks. Specifically, our objective is to establish controllability characteristics on signed complex networks, where the network units interact via neighbor-based Laplacian feedback and the network admits positive and negative edges to capture cooperative and competitive interactions among these units. The network units can be classified into leaders and followers. This article focuses on characterizing the energy-related controllability in signed networks (i.e., the energy incurred by the leaders in the control of a network). To this end, controllability Gramian-based measures are exploited to quantify the difficulty of the control problem on signed networks in terms of the required control energy. Fundamental relationships between these measures and network topology are developed via graph Laplacian to characterize energy-related controllability. It is revealed that, for structurally unbalanced signed graphs, the energy-related controllability is closely related to the diagonal entries of the inverse of the graph Laplacian. It is also discovered that structurally balanced signed graphs and their corresponding unsigned graphs have the same energy-related controllability.