Title : 
Characterization of structural controllability
         
        
            Author : 
Glover, K. ; Silverman, L.M.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
8/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A self-contained algebraic derivation of the necessary and sufficient conditions for a multiinput system with a fixed zero structure to be structurally controllable is given. In addition, a new recursive test for determining structural controllability which utilizes only Boolean operations is obtained.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Controllability; Linear systems, time-invariant continuous-time; Automatic control; Blades; Control systems; Controllability; Polynomials; Robust control; Steady-state; Sufficient conditions; Testing; Transfer functions;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TAC.1976.1101257