Signal-flow graph
Gráfico de flujo de señal
- Date
- c. 1942 · confidence low
- Place
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Claude Shannon
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A directed graph representing the functional dependencies among a system's variables through nodes and branches, devised by Claude Shannon and popularized as the 'Mason graph' after Samuel J. Mason's later work in control theory.
What it led to
- Mason's rule for computing transfer functions
- Widespread application in control theory and cyber-physical systems
- A standard tool in control-systems engineering