Brief papers: Hierarchical control of weakly-coupled systems

  • Authors:

  • Douglas P. Looze;Nils R. Sandell, Jr

  • Affiliations:

  • Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, 1101 W. Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A.;Alphatech Inc., 3 New England Executive Park, Burlington, MA 01803, U.S.A.

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

The usual concept of weakly-coupled systems is generalized to provide a definition in terms of the decomposition used. The definition includes a measure of the strength of the coupling. The main result of the paper is a local convergence result for natural decompositions (decompositions which exploit system structure) of systems which are sufficiently weakly coupled.