Control of distributed systems: Tutorial and overview

European Journal of Control

Volumn 17, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 579-602

  van Schuppen, Jan H ^a   Boutin, Olivier ^a   Kempker, Pia L ^b   Komenda, Jan ^c   Masopust, Tomáš ^c   Pambakian, Nicola ^d   Ran, André C M ^b  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coordination control; Distributed control; Distributed control with communication; Distributed system; Hierarchical control

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION REACTIONS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; GEOMETRY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LINEAR SYSTEMS;

COORDINATION CONTROL; DISCRETE EVENTS SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL WITH COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED-CONTROL; GAUSSIAN SYSTEMS; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION; HIERARCHICAL CONTROL; LOCAL SUBSYSTEM;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84055191536     PISSN: 09473580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/EJC.17.579-602     Document Type: Article

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