M. Hovd et S. Skogestad, PAIRING CRITERIA FOR DECENTRALIZED CONTROL OF UNSTABLE PLANTS, Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 33(9), 1994, pp. 2134-2139
The widely used pairing criteria involving the Niederlinski index and
the steady-state relative gain array (RGA) used for evaluating integri
ty under decentralized control are extended to open-loop unstable plan
ts it will in some cases be preferable to choose pairings giving negat
ive Niederlinski index and/or RGA. The relationship between the two me
asures is also clarified.