Zoran Gajic and Myo-Taeg Lim. Optimal Control: Weakly Coupled Systems and Applications

AUTOMATION AND CONTROL ENGINEERING SERIES. - NY, London: CRC Press,Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. - 2008. - 320p.
This book is intended for engineers, mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists interested in control theory and its applications. It describes a special class of linear and bilinear control systems known as weakly coupled systems.
These systems, characterized by the presence of weak coupling among subsystems, describe dynamics of many real physical systems such as chemical plants, power systems, aircraft, satellites, machines, cars, and computer=communication networks.