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 …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of structural systems theory

G Ramos, AP Aguiar, S Pequito - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper provides an overview of the research conducted in the context of structural (or
structured) systems. These are parametrized models used to assess and design system …

Controller architectures: Tradeoffs between performance and structure

MR Jovanović, NK Dhingra - European Journal of Control, 2016 - Elsevier
This review article describes the design of static controllers that achieve an optimal tradeoff
between closed-loop performance and controller structure. Our methodology consists of two …

LQG control and sensing co-design

V Tzoumas, L Carlone, GJ Pappas… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate a linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control and sensing codesign problem,
where one jointly designs sensing and control policies. We focus on the realistic case where …

Robustness of leader–follower networked dynamical systems

M Pirani, EM Shahrivar, B Fidan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a graph-theoretic approach to analyze the robustness of leader-follower
consensus dynamics to disturbances and time delays. Robustness to disturbances is …

A game-theoretic framework for security-aware sensor placement problem in networked control systems

M Pirani, E Nekouei, H Sandberg… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the sensor placement problem in a leader–follower networked control
system for improving its security against cyber-physical attacks. In a zero-sum game, the …

Submodularity of optimal sensor placement for traffic networks

R Li, N Mehr, R Horowitz - Transportation research part B: methodological, 2023 - Elsevier
The need for monitoring the state of a traffic network versus the costly installation and
maintenance of roadside sensors constitutes the tough sensor placement problem in …

Strategic sensor placement on graphs

M Pirani, JA Taylor, B Sinopoli - Systems & Control Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper studies optimal sensor placement in networked control systems for improving the
detectability of cyber–physical attacks. The problem is formulated as a game between an …

Submodularity in input node selection for networked linear systems: Efficient algorithms for performance and controllability

A Clark, B Alomair, L Bushnell… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Networked systems are systems of interconnected components in which the dynamics of
each component (often referred to as a node or agent) are influenced by the behavior of …

Resilient monotone submodular function maximization

V Tzoumas, K Gatsis, A Jadbabaie… - 2017 IEEE 56th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we focus on applications in machine learning, optimization, and control that
call for the resilient selection of a few elements, eg features, sensors, or leaders, against a …