Open-loop controllability of interconnected heterogeneous systems with distributed parameters.

The previously developed methods for analyzing the controllability of linear multidimensional plants with distributed parameters on a given set of open-loop trajectories of their transfer into the desired finite state are extended to interconnected physically heterogeneous distributed dynamic systems. An example (which is of independent interest) of estimating the open-loop controllability of nonstationary heat conduction processes under the conditions of the perfect contact of the interacting environments is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]