Knock-out Structure Identification of Linear Networks

Abstract

In this paper, for an undirected network consisting of identical multi-dimensional linear subsystems in which the network structure is unknown and the number of input/output ports is less than that of subsystems, we propose a novel method to identify the strength of the connectivity between specified two subsystems. The proposed method is on the basis of the node knock-out procedure, and does not need any information on the other connectivities.