Comment on `Detecting Topology Variations in Networks of Linear Dynamical Systems'
For researchers in network control theory, this corrects a flawed condition in a published result, but the contribution is incremental as it points out an error rather than proposing a new method.
This comment identifies an error in the network-theoretic conditions for detecting topology variations in dynamical networks presented in a prior IEEE paper, providing a counterexample to the claimed detectability conditions.
Conditions for the detectability of topology variations in dynamical networks are developed in a recent article in the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems [1]. Here, an example is presented which illustrates an error in the network-theoretic conditions for detectability developed in [1].