Two corrdination principles and their application in large scale systems control

✍ Scribed by M.D. Mesarovic; D. Macko; Y. Takahara

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 889 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0005-1098
• DOI: 10.1016/0005-1098(70)90097-x

✦ Synopsis

Two principles for coordinating the controllers of interacting subprocesses are postulated in order to provide guidance in synthesizing structures for multi-level, or hierarchial, control systems. One principle is based on interaction prediction and the other on interaction balance. Both are formulated in the general systems theoretic framework for the case in which the subprocess and overall process control objectives are optimization. The principles are however extendable to other control objectives. Sufficient conditions for the successful application of the interaction balance principle are given for the case when the subprocesses and overall process are defined on normed linear spaces. Some examples are given to illustrate the required conditions.