Arneson, HeatherDousse, NicolasLangbort, Cédric2016-01-202016-01-202016-01-20201610.1016/j.automatica.2016.01.067https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/122435WOS:000375507600041We consider control design for positive compartmental systems in which each compartment's outflow rate is described by a concave function of the amount of material in the compartment. We address the problem of determining the routing of material between compartments to satisfy time-varying state constraints while ensuring that material reaches its intended destination over a finite time horizon. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of a time-varying state-dependent routing strategy which ensures that the closed-loop system satisfies basic network properties of positivity, conservation and interconnection while ensuring that capacity constraints are satisfied, when possible, or adjusted if a solution cannot be found. These conditions are formulated as a linear programming problem. Instances of this linear programming problem can be solved iteratively to generate a solution to the finite horizon routing problem. Results are given for the application of this control design method to an example problem. Published by Elsevier Ltd.Linear programmingControl of networksPositive systemsController constraints and structuretext::journal::journal article::research article