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The structural design methods for decentralized control systems determine if the structure of the system to be controlled and the proposed local feedback loops are sufficient to make controllability and observability possible under nearly all conditions.
The structure of the system is represented by a digraph of which the nodes represent the state variables. The structural design methods are based on the Boolean form of the matrices describing the system and therefore they imply only simple Boolean matrix operations. The rank conditions included in the Kalman criteria for controllability and observabili ty are substi tuted by term rank conditions in the structural case.
The structural design methods for control systems supplement the numerical methods, which determines the specified dynamical system behaviour.
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Larsen, P.M., Evans, F.J. (1988). Structural Design of Decentralized Control Systems. In: Denham, M.J., Laub, A.J. (eds) Advanced Computing Concepts and Techniques in Control Engineering. NATO ASI Series, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83548-3_10
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