Distributed, hierarchical & hybrid control systems

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The overall objective of the proposed research program is to advance the fundamental study and engineering design of distributed, hierarchical and hybrid (DHH) control systems. Distributed and hierarchical system structures are universally employed to contend with system complexity, consider for instance the decentralized and hierarchical control systems of steel manufacturing plants, and those of the Internet and the air-traffic control and network wireless systems. Furthermore, hybrid systems, that is to say systems with both continuous and discrete states and dynamics, are inherent in the technologies employed in contemporary engineering systems, consider, for example, the chemical engineering and manufacturing process industries. Space vehicle trajectory control and space mission management systems vividly display distributed, hierarchical and hybrid control systems features.