Abstract
An important aspect of the design of large scale engineering systems is the specification of interfaces between various controller and measurement subsystems and of the information that must cross these interfaces. Examples drawn from aerospace, transportation, power, and communications systems are given to illustrate this point. A formal theory of interface design is presently unavailable, and so several heuristic approaches are described.
This research has been conducted in the Decision and Control Sciences Group of the M.I.T. Electronic Systems Laboratory with support by NSF under grant NSF-ENG 75-10517, by NASA under grant NGL-22-009-124, and by ONR under grant ONR 041-496.
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Sandell, N.R. (1976). Information Flow in Decentralized Systems. In: Ho, Y.C., Mitter, S.K. (eds) Directions in Large-Scale Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2259-7_1
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