Paper Info
Title
On Separating Points for Ensemble Controllability
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed a wave of research activities in systems science toward the study of population systems. The driving force behind this shift was geared by numerous emerging and ever-changing technologies in life and physical sciences and engineering, from neuroscience, biology, and quantum physics to robotics, where many control-enabled applications involve manipulating a large ensemble of structurally identical dynamic units, or agents. Analyzing fundamental properties of ensemble control systems in turn plays a foundational and critical role in enabling and, further, advancing these applications, and the analysis is largely beyond the capability of classical control techniques. In this paper, we consider an ensemble of time-invariant linear systems evolving on an infinite-dimensional space of continuous functions. We exploit the notion of separating points and techniques of polynomial approximation to develop necessary and sufficient ensemble controllability conditions. In particular, we introduce an extended notion of controllability matrix, called the ensemble controllability matrix. This enables the characterization of ensemble controllability through evaluating controllability of each individual system in the ensemble. As a result, the work provides a unified framework with a systematic procedure for analyzing control systems defined on an infinite-dimensional space by a finite-dimensional approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1137/19M1278648
SIAM JOURNAL ON CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
ensemble control,parameter-dependent systems,separating points,polynomial approximation,Lie algebra
Journal
58
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0363-0129
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shin Li Jr.111219.45
Wei Zhang200.34
Lin Tie316513.68