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Coordination Control of Distributed Systems

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An information structure specifies the observationsd available to the controllers of a decentralized or a distributed control system. The observations include those received directly from the control system and those received directly from other controllers. A classification of information structures is stated including classical, overlapping, and private information structures. Control synthesis is best distinguished per information structure.

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    Jan H. van Schuppen

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  1. Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  2. Dipartimento d'Informatica, Università degli studi di Verona, Verona, Italy

    Tiziano Villa

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van Schuppen, J.H. (2015). Information Structures. In: van Schuppen, J., Villa, T. (eds) Coordination Control of Distributed Systems. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 456. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10407-2_24

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