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Gramian-based characterization of network vulnerability to nodal impulse inputs
P. V. Chanekar, B. K. Poolla, J. Cortés
IEEE Control Systems Letters, submitted

Abstract

Impulsive inputs applied at influential nodes of a network system may result in undesirable behavior and degrade performance. This paper proposes the notion of vulnerability matrix (VM) to characterize the effect of impulse inputs on a network following either discrete- or continuous-time dynamics. The VM describes the first-order effects of impulse inputs on edge flows and is based on the controllability Gramian. We provide explicit expressions for the entries of the vulnerability matrix for the class of directed line networks in terms of the edge weights. Simulations validate our results and highlight the utility of the proposed metric in capturing the transient effects of nodal impulse inputs on edge flows.

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