Controllability, Identification, and Randomness in Distributed Systems

✍ Scribed by Marzieh Nabi-Abdolyousefi (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 156
• Series: Springer Theses
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This interdisciplinary thesis involves the design and analysis of coordination algorithms on networks, identification of dynamic networks and estimation on networks with random geometries with implications for networks that support the operation of dynamic systems, e.g., formations of robotic vehicles, distributed estimation via sensor networks. The results have ramifications for fault detection and isolation of large-scale networked systems and optimization models and algorithms for next generation aircraft power systems. The author finds novel applications of the methodology in energy systems, such as residential and industrial smart energy management systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Background....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Network Identification via Node Knockout....Pages 17-29
A Sieve Method for Consensus-Type Network Tomography....Pages 31-38
Network Identification via Graph Realization....Pages 39-49
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Controllability and Observability of Circulant Networks....Pages 53-68
Controllability Gramian, Symmetry Structures, and Application of Circulant Networks....Pages 69-77
Controllability and Observability of Path Networks....Pages 79-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
System Properties of Stochastic Networks: Controllability and Optimality....Pages 87-104
Coordinated Decentralized Estimation Over Random Networks....Pages 105-123
Online Coordinated Decentralized Localization of the Seaglider with Intermittent Observations....Pages 125-135
Social Control and Optimal Marketing....Pages 137-146
Concluding Remarks and Future Directions....Pages 147-151

✦ Subjects

Complex Networks; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Energy Policy, Economics and Management; Control