Disturbance decoupling control design for switched Boolean control networks

This paper investigates a kind of disturbance decoupling problems (DDPs) for switched Boolean control networks (BCNs), that is, the disturbance-independent output decoupling problem, via the semi-tensor product of matrices. By converting the dynamics of switched BCNs into an algebraic form and using the redundant variable separation technique, all possible state feedback controllers are designed for the disturbance-independent output decoupling problem. Then, based on the obtained state feedback disturbance decoupling controllers and the system’s output equation, a constructive procedure is proposed to design all possible output feedback disturbance decoupling controllers. The study of two illustrative examples shows that the new results obtained in this paper are effective in designing disturbance decoupling controllers for switched BCNs.