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Survey of decentralized control methods for large scale systems

19781,079 citationsJournal Article

Authors

N. Sandell · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pravin Varaiya · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Michael Athans · University of California, Berkeley

Michael G. Safonov · University of Southern California

Abstract

This paper surveys the control theoretic literature on decentralized and hierarchical control, and methods of analysis of large scale systems.

Topics & Keywords

Mobile Agent-Based Network Management Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems Military Defense Systems Analysis

Publication Details

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volume 23, Issue 2, pp. 108-128

DOI: 10.1109/tac.1978.1101704

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 69.55

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