Minimum cost input/output design for large-scale linear structural systems

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2016

Authors

Pequito, S (Author) Other; Kar, S (Author) Other; Aguiar, AP (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Automatica

Vol. 68

Pages: 384-391

ISSN: 0005-1098

Publisher: Elsevier

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Authenticus ID: P-00K-92Z

DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2016.02.005

Abstract (EN): In this paper, we provide optimal solutions to two different (but related) input/output design problems involving large-scale linear dynamical systems, where the cost associated to each directly actuated/measured state variable can take different values, but is independent of the input/output performing the task. Under these conditions, we first aim to determine and characterize the input/output placement that incurs in the minimum cost while ensuring that the resulting placement achieves structural controllability/observability. Further, we address a constrained variant of the above problem, in which we seek to determine the minimum cost placement configuration, among all possible input/output placement configurations that ensures structural controllability/observability, with the lowest number of directly actuated/measured state variables. We develop new graph-theoretical characterizations of cost-constrained input selections for structural controllability and properties that enable us to address both problems by reduction to a weighted maximum matching problem efficiently addressed by algorithms with polynomial time complexity (in the number of state variables). Finally, we illustrate the obtained results with an example.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8