Graph-theoretic approaches for analyzing the resilience of distributed control systems: A tutorial and survey

M Pirani, A Mitra, S Sundaram - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
As the scale of distributed control systems over networks increases and interactions
between different subsystems become more sophisticated, questions of the resilience of …

A unifying framework for strong structural controllability

J Jia, HJ Van Waarde, HL Trentelman… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article deals with strong structural controllability of linear systems. In contrast to the
existing work, the structured systems studied in this article have a so-called …

Laplacian dynamics on cographs: Controllability analysis through joins and unions

SS Mousavi, M Haeri, M Mesbahi - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we examine the controllability of Laplacian dynamic networks on cographs.
Cographs appear in modeling a wide range of networks and include as special instances …

Strong structural controllability of networks under time-invariant and time-varying topological perturbations

SS Mousavi, M Haeri, M Mesbahi - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the robustness of strong structural controllability for linear time-
invariant and linear time-varying directed networks with respect to structural perturbations …

Minimal structural perturbations for controllability of a networked system: Complexities and approximations

Y Zhang, T Zhou - … Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Link additions/deletions and actuator/sensor failures are common structural perturbations for
real networked systems. In this paper, we consider three related problems on determining …

On the reachability and controllability of temporal continuous-time linear networks: A generic analysis

Y Zhang, Y Xia, L Wang - Automatica, 2024 - Elsevier
Temporal networks are a class of time-varying networks whose topology evolves through a
time-ordered sequence of static networks (known as subsystems), which find wide-ranging …

Strong structural controllability of signed networks

SS Mousavi, M Haeri, M Mesbahi - 2019 IEEE 58th Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we discuss the controllability of a family of linear time-invariant (LTI) networks
defined on a signed graph. In this direction, we introduce the notion of positive and negative …

Tradeoff between controllability and robustness in diffusively coupled networks

W Abbas, M Shabbir, AY Yazıcıoğlu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we demonstrate a conflicting relationship between two crucial properties-
controllability and robustness-in linear dynamical networks of diffusively coupled agents. In …

Controllability backbone in networks

OU Ahmad, M Shabbir, W Abbas - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the controllability backbone problem in dynamical networks defined over
graphs. The main idea of the controllability backbone is to identify a small subset of edges in …

On Zero Forcing Sets and Network Controllability—Computation and Edge Augmentation

W Abbas, M Shabbir, Y Yazıcıoğlu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the problem of computing a minimum zero forcing set (ZFS) in undirected
graphs and presents new approaches to reducing the size of the minimum ZFS via edge …