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Network controllability is a powerful tool to study causal relationships in complex systems and identify the driver nodes for steering the network dynamics into desired states. However, due to ill-posed conditions, results become unreliable…

It is well-known that the controllability of finite-dimensional nonlinear systems can be established by showing the controllability of the linearized system. However, this classical result does not generalize to infinite-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Bernd Kolar , Markus Schöberl

In this paper, we consider a population of individuals who have actions and opinions, which coevolve, mutually influencing one another on a complex network structure. In particular, we formulate a control problem for this social network, in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Roberta Raineri , Mengbin Ye , Lorenzo Zino

We develop a principled mathematical framework for controlling nonlinear, networked dynamical systems. Our method integrates dimensionality reduction, bifurcation theory and emerging model discovery tools to find low-dimensional subspaces…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Megan Morrison , J. Nathan Kutz

The study of network structural controllability focuses on the minimum number of driver nodes needed to control a whole network. Despite intensive studies on this topic, most of them consider static networks only. It is well-known, however,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-27 Rui Zhang , Xiaomeng Wang , Ming Cheng , Tao Jia

Pinning control on complex dynamical networks has emerged as a very important topic in recent trends of control theory due to the extensive study of collective coupled behaviors and their role in physics, engineering and biology. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Stephane Chretien , Sebastien Darses

In this paper, we present a novel method to drive a nonlinear system to a desired state, with limited a priori knowledge of its dynamic model: local dynamics at a single point and the bounds on the rate of change of these dynamics. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Yiming Meng , Taha Shafa , Jesse Wei , Melkior Ornik

What can we learn about controlling a system solely from its underlying network structure? Here we adapt a recently developed framework for control of networks governed by a broad class of nonlinear dynamics that includes the major dynamic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-07 Jorge G. T. Zañudo , Gang Yang , Réka Albert

Effective control of biological systems can often be achieved through the control of a surprisingly small number of distinct variables. We bring clarity to such results using the formalism of Boolean dynamical networks, analyzing the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-13 Enrico Borriello , Bryan C. Daniels

Notwithstanding the usefulness of system dynamics in analyzing complex policy problems, policy design is far from straightforward and in many instances trial-and-error driven. To address this challenge, we propose to combine system dynamics…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-15 Lukas Schoenenberger , Radu Tanase

We introduce the concept of control centrality to quantify the ability of a single node to control a directed weighted network. We calculate the distribution of control centrality for several real networks and find that it is mainly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-01 Yang-Yu Liu , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Albert-László Barabási

Network science has experienced unprecedented rapid development in the past two decades. The network perspective has also been widely applied to explore various complex systems in great depth. In the first decade, fundamental…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-01-13 Aming Li , Yang-Yu Liu

The existing results on controllability of multi-agents networks are mostly based on homogeneous nodes. This paper focuses on controllability of heterogeneous multi-agent networks, where the agents are modeled as two types. One type is that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Bin Zhao , Michael Z. Q. Chen , Yongqiang Guan , Long Wang

Controlling real-world networked systems, including ecological, biomedical, and engineered networks that exhibit higher-order interactions, remains challenging due to inherent nonlinearities and large system scales. Despite extensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Joshua Pickard , Xin Mao , Can Chen

Control of a dynamical system without the knowledge of dynamics is an important and challenging task. Modern machine learning approaches, such as deep neural networks (DNNs), allow for the estimation of a dynamics model from control inputs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Suruchi Sharma , Volodymyr Makarenko , Gautam Kumar , Stas Tiomkin

Controlling complex networked systems to a desired state is a key research goal in contemporary science. Despite recent advances in studying the impact of network topology on controllability, a comprehensive understanding of the synergistic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Chen Zhao , Wen-Xu Wang , Yang-Yu Liu , Jean-Jacques Slotine

It is explained and stressed that the chaotic states in [1] are obtained by means of nonlinear switching.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-03-24 Emanuel Gluskin

This paper examines the structural controllability for a group of agents, called followers, connected to each other based on the consensus law under commands of multiple leaders, which are agents with superior capabilities, over a fixed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Milad M. Kazemi , Mohsen Zamani , Zhiyong Chen

This letter examines the controllability of consensus dynamics on matrix-weighed networks from a graph-theoretic perspective. Unlike the scalar-weighted networks, the rank of weight matrix introduces additional intricacies into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Lulu Pan , Haibin Shao , Mehran Mesbahi , Yugeng Xi , Dewei Li

The question of controllability of natural and man-made network systems has recently received considerable attention. In the context of the human brain, the study of controllability may not only shed light into the organization and function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Tommaso Menara , Shi Gu , Danielle S. Bassett , Fabio Pasqualetti