Decentralized control of linear interconnected multivariable systems

This paper presents a continuations approach to eigenvalue assignment using dynamic decentralized output feedback. The underlying system model is the component connection model, CCM. This is a decoupled large scale systems model in which dynamics and interconnections have separate defining equations. In such a context it is possible to parameterize the connection information and derive a differential equation whose solution trajectory characterizes appropriate decentralized feedback gains. The trajectory end point serves as that decentralized feedback matrix which assigns a desired set of system eigenvalues.