Lectures on Network Systems

Francesco Bullo Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara bullo at engineering.ucsb.edu Version 0.95(h) June 15, 2017

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• Almost all book figures, available with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0): [tgz file]

• All biobliographical entries: [bibtex file]

• A solution manual (~150 exercises, ~90% ready) is freely available upon request to instructors at accredited institutions.

@Book{lns-v.95,
  author =    {F. Bullo},
  title =     {Lectures on Network Systems},
  year =      2017,
  publisher = {Version 0.95},
  note =      {With contributions by J. Cortes, F. Dorfler, and S. Martinez},
  url =       {http://motion.me.ucsb.edu/book-lns},
}

History

• Jun 1, 2016: version .85 posted online

• Nov 1, 2016: version .86

• Feb 11, 2017: version .95

  • new material: “irreducible matrices” in Def 2.10 and Thm4.2, “iff conditions for consensus” in Thm5.1, “control design for clock sync” in S5.4, “spectral graph theory” S4.5, “Abelson model: in S7.1.1, ”second order Laplacian flow“ in S7.4, ”Vmax-min for row-stochastic" in Thm11.8

  • new Chp13 on example nonlinear systems

  • new Chp14 with review of stability theory

  • new sections with “historical notes and further references” in all chapters

  • doi information in all articles

• Mar 26, 2017: figures posted and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

• Apr 23, 2017: bibliography file posted

• May 15, 2017: improvements in figures, exercises, and miscellaneous corrections

• June 15, 2017: improvements in examples, exercises, and miscellaneous corrections

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