Automatica, Vol.35, No.4, 755-760, 1999
Simplified tree-structured decomposition using bond graphs
The value set of an uncertain transfer function facilitates a number of robust control problems. For the general case, value set synthesis is aided when the transfer function is decomposed into a tree structure with (mostly) disjoint uncertain parameters. We have developed a general and direct technique for obtaining such transfer functions. Bond graphs provide the machinery for the new technique. The method developed here simplifies tree-structured transfer function synthesis for physically derived symbolic plant models.