Functional Observability, Structural Functional Observability and Optimal Sensor Placement

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Auteurs principaux: Zhang, Yuan, Fernando, Tyrone, Darouach, Mohamed
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author Zhang, Yuan
Fernando, Tyrone
Darouach, Mohamed
author_facet Zhang, Yuan
Fernando, Tyrone
Darouach, Mohamed
contents In this paper, new characterizations for functional observability, functional detectability, and structural functional observability (SFO) are developed, and based on them, the related optimal sensor placement problems are investigated. A novel concept of modal functional observability coinciding with the notion of modal observability is proposed. This notion introduces necessary and sufficient conditions for functional observability and detectability in a unified way without resorting to system observability decomposition, and facilitates the design of a functionally observable/detectable system. Afterwards, SFO is redefined rigorously from a generic perspective, contrarily to the definition of structural observability. A complete graph-theoretic characterization for SFO is proposed. Based on these results, the problems of selecting the minimal sensors from a prior set to achieve functional observability and SFO are shown to be NP-hard. Nevertheless, supermodular set functions are established, leading to greedy heuristics that can find approximation solutions to these problems with provable guarantees in polynomial time. A closed-form solution along with a constructive procedure is also given for the unconstrained case on systems with diagonalizable state matrices. Notably, our results also yield a polynomial-time verifiable case for structural target controllability, a problem that may be hard otherwise.
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spellingShingle Functional Observability, Structural Functional Observability and Optimal Sensor Placement
Zhang, Yuan
Fernando, Tyrone
Darouach, Mohamed
Systems and Control
In this paper, new characterizations for functional observability, functional detectability, and structural functional observability (SFO) are developed, and based on them, the related optimal sensor placement problems are investigated. A novel concept of modal functional observability coinciding with the notion of modal observability is proposed. This notion introduces necessary and sufficient conditions for functional observability and detectability in a unified way without resorting to system observability decomposition, and facilitates the design of a functionally observable/detectable system. Afterwards, SFO is redefined rigorously from a generic perspective, contrarily to the definition of structural observability. A complete graph-theoretic characterization for SFO is proposed. Based on these results, the problems of selecting the minimal sensors from a prior set to achieve functional observability and SFO are shown to be NP-hard. Nevertheless, supermodular set functions are established, leading to greedy heuristics that can find approximation solutions to these problems with provable guarantees in polynomial time. A closed-form solution along with a constructive procedure is also given for the unconstrained case on systems with diagonalizable state matrices. Notably, our results also yield a polynomial-time verifiable case for structural target controllability, a problem that may be hard otherwise.
title Functional Observability, Structural Functional Observability and Optimal Sensor Placement
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08923