IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.49, No.9, 1446-1452, 2004
Distributed control of systems over discrete groups
This paper discusses distributed controller design and analysis for distributed systems with arbitrary discrete symmetry groups. We show how recent results for designing controllers for spatially interconnected systems, based on semidefinite programming, are applicable to a much larger class of interconnection topologies. We also show how to exploit the structure of the symmetry group to produce a hierarchy of decreasingly conservative analysis and synthesis conditions.
Keywords:control over networks;distributed control;H-infinity;interconnected systems;linear matrix inequalities (LMIs)