Print Email Facebook Twitter A Classification of Nodes for Structural Controllability Title A Classification of Nodes for Structural Controllability Author Commault, Christian (Université Grenoble Alpes) van der Woude, J.W. (TU Delft Mathematical Physics) Date 2019 Abstract In this paper we consider (large and complex) interconnected networks. We assume that each state/node, not belonging to a set of forbidden nodes of the network, can be selected to act as a steering node, meaning that such a node then is influenced by its own individual control. We aim to achieve structural controllability and we present a classification of the associated steering nodes as being essential (always required to be present), useful (present in certain configurations) and useless (never necessary in whatever configuration). The classification is based on two types of decomposition that naturally show up in the context of the two conditions (connection condition and rank condition) for structural controllability. The underlying methods are related to well-known and efficient network algorithms. Subject ControllabilityInput connection conditionRank conditionSteering nodeStructured system theory To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fa0e4dac-84b2-4865-ba34-dacb0bbe3043 DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2018.2886181 ISSN 0018-9286 Source IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 64 (9), 3877-3882 Bibliographical note Accepted author manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 Christian Commault, J.W. van der Woude Files PDF 08573885.pdf 435.11 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:fa0e4dac-84b2-4865-ba34-dacb0bbe3043/datastream/OBJ/view