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Controllability of Multi‐Agent Dynamical Systems with a Broadcasting Control Signal
Author(s) -
Yoon MyungGon,
Rowlinson Peter,
Cvetković Dragoš,
Stanić Zoran
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
asian journal of control
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.769
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1934-6093
pISSN - 1561-8625
DOI - 10.1002/asjc.793
Subject(s) - controllability , network controllability , dependency (uml) , dynamical systems theory , computer science , control theory (sociology) , fragility , signal (programming language) , broadcasting (networking) , topology (electrical circuits) , control (management) , distributed computing , mathematics , computer network , artificial intelligence , physics , combinatorics , betweenness centrality , quantum mechanics , centrality , thermodynamics , programming language
This paper is concerned with the controllability of a multi‐agent dynamical system in which all identical first‐order dynamical agents receive a common exogenous control signal in addition to their inter‐agent communications. Existing graph theoretic results are used to determine conditions for controllability, and to study the dependency of controllability on the size of network and the number of connections. The fragility of controllability in the presence of hidden or broken connections is also investigated.