Minimum leader selection for Structural Controllability of Undirected Graphs with Leader-follower Framework

Abstract

The optimization problem of the minimum set of leaders for the controllability of undirected graphs are addressed. It is difficult to find not only its optimal solution but also its approximate algorithm. We propose a new concept, namely minimal perfect critical set (MPCS), to obtain an optimal solution. Some properties are presented, and on the basis of these theorems, the problem of the minimum set of leaders of two typical self-similar bipartite networks, namely deterministic scale-free networks (DSFN) and Cayley trees, is solved completely.