Decentralized Modeling, Analysis, Control, and Application of Distributed Dynamic Systems

The subsystems should connect to a network topology collectively, such that they are able to communicate by exchanging information or substance and cooperate with each other. Since the beginning of the current century, studies on the modeling, simulation, analysis, and synthesis about distributed dynamic systems have gradually formed a highlighted direction in the area of control and systems science, meanwhile receiving more and more attention from increasing number of scientific and application disciplines. For the networked distributed systems, the set of essential theoretical concepts of systems analysis and synthesis which are already fully developed on isolated systems such as stability, equilibrium, controllability/observability, and tracking control acquire new connotations and contents, which need to be extended profoundly. [...]methodologies based on networked configurations could also facilitate offering solutions to various difficult tasks.