Observer design for networks and distributed control
D.A.J. van Zwieten, A.A.J. Lefeber, J.E. Rooda · 2011
Networks of switched servers are all around, e.g. manufacturing systems, supply chains, urban traffic networks, etc. When the layout and policy of the network is known, under certain conditions it is possible for a server to reconstruct the global state of the system. Therefore, we propose to use the idea of observers for deriving distributed policies for switching networks. The following steps can be distinguished: