Passivity Indices for Symmetrically Interconnected Distributed Systems

Authors: Po Wu and Panos J. Antsaklis

19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation

Abstract:

In this paper, the passivity indices for both linear
and nonlinear multi-agent systems with feedforward and
feedback interconnections are derived. For linear systems, the
passivity indices are explicitly characterized, while the passivity
indices in the nonlinear case are characterized by a set of matrix
inequalities. We also focus on symmetric interconnections and
specialize the passivity indices results to this case. An illustrative
example is also given.