Behaviour and Stability of Interconnected Systems: From Biological Applications to Opinion Dynamics

An interconnected system is composed of multiple well-defined self-contained subsystems that interact among them and that together create collective behaviours. We can find many examples of interconnected systems in real life. Ranging from biological systems, such as the growth and interaction of populations in diverse and spatially distributed...

Hierarchical Cyber-Attack Detection in Large-Scale Interconnected Systems

In this paper we present a hierarchical scheme to detect cyber-attacks in a hierarchical control architecture for large-scale interconnected systems (LSS). We consider the LSS as a network of physically coupled subsystems, equipped with a two-layer controller: on the local level, decentralized controllers guarantee overall stability and...

Identification of 2D Interconnected Systems: An efficient Steepest-Descent approach

In this paper, a new identification method for large 2D grids of interconnected systems is presented. The proposed algorithm minimizes the Output-Error of the lifted system by using a Steepest-Descent optimization method which exploit the Multilevel Sequentially-Semi Separable (MSSS) structure of the involved matrices. Furthermore, it is...