The paper reviews the past and present results in the area of decentralized control of large-
scale complex systems. An emphasis is laid on decentralization, decomposition, and …

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the principles underlying optimal
constrained control and estimation. The contents progress from optimisation theory, fixed …

We consider the problem of designing distributed controllers for a class of systems which
can be obtained from the interconnection of a number of identical subsystems. If the state …

Sheet and film processes include polymer film extrusion, coating processes of many types,
paper manufacturing, sheet metal rolling, and plate glass manufacture. Identification …

In this paper, we study the structural properties of optimal control of spatially distributed
systems. Such systems consist of an infinite collection of possibly heterogeneous linear …

We describe the design and implementation of a modular vertical take-off and landing
vehicle, which can be assembled and flown in an unlimited number of arbitrary …

This manuscript investigates a constrained problem of an arbitrary (fractional) order
quadratic functional integro-differential equation with a quadratic functional integro …

We consider the problem of designing controllers for spatially-varying interconnected
systems distributed in one spatial dimension. The matrix structure of such systems can be …

This paper deals with a control of coupled nonlinear identical systems that admit full exact
feedback input-output linearization. The subsystems are linearized using this nonlinear …

Motivated by three applications which are under investigation at the Honeywell Research
Laboratory in Minneapolis, we introduce a class of large scale control problems. In particular …