Combinatorics-based approaches to controllability characterization for bilinear systems

DOI10.1137/20M1365351zbMATH Open1478.93050arXiv2009.03430OpenAlexW3206594015MaRDI QIDQ5157380FDOQ5157380

Authors: Gong Cheng, Wei Zhang, Jr-Shin Li 

Publication date: 18 October 2021

Published in: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The control of bilinear systems has attracted considerable attention in the field of systems and control for decades, owing to their prevalence in diverse applications across science and engineering disciplines. Although much work has been conducted on analyzing controllability properties, the mostly used tool remains the Lie algebra rank condition. In this paper, we develop alternative approaches based on theory and techniques in combinatorics to study controllability of bilinear systems. The core idea of our methodology is to represent vector fields of a bilinear system by permutations or graphs, so that Lie brackets are represented by permutation multiplications or graph operations, respectively. Following these representations, we derive combinatorial characterization of controllability for bilinear systems, which consequently provides novel applications of symmetric group and graph theory to control theory. Moreover, the developed combinatorial approaches are compatible with Lie algebra decompositions, including the Cartan and non-intertwining decomposition. This compatibility enables the exploitation of representation theory for analyzing controllability, which allows us to characterize controllability properties of bilinear systems governed by semisimple and reductive Lie algebras.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03430

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zbMATH Keywords

graph theoryLie groupssymmetric groupsbilinear systemsrepresentation theoryCartan decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Controllability (93B05) Large-scale systems (93A15) Nonlinear systems in control theory (93C10)

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