Robustness Comparison of Enterprise Energy Distribution Systems of Various Topologies

Abstract The problem of the communication system topology for distributed control systems in large-scale manufacturing enterprises is usually solved in a rather arbitrary way. The paper presents some reasonable approached based of evaluation of the system robustness, using the µ function as the measure or robustness. The paper proposes a method feasible for actual system designers since computational effort is rather low for communication systems described with time delays only.