IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.59, No.4, 851-862, 2014
LQ Control for Coordinated Linear Systems
Coordinated linear systems are a special class of hierarchical linear systems, with a strict top-to-bottom information structure. The LQ problem over all structure-preserving static state feedbacks is discussed. The overall control problem separates into conditionally independent subproblems, a numerical approach to their solution is derived, and the behavior and performance of the resulting control law are illustrated in examples.