DocumentCode
1501342
Title
Impulse controllability and observability of rectangular descriptor systems
Author
Ishihara, Joao Yoshiyuki ; Terra, Marco Henrique
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Sao Paulo Univ., Brazil
Volume
46
Issue
6
fYear
2001
fDate
6/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
991
Lastpage
994
Abstract
The presence of impulsive responses in descriptor systems and how it relates to impulse controllability and impulse observability is considered. It is shown that the equivalence between impulse controllability (observability) and the existence of an impulse eliminating semistate feedback (output injection) gain, although true for square descriptor systems, does not hold for rectangular descriptor systems in general. Hence, necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an impulse eliminating semistate feedback (output injection) gain are presented
Keywords
controllability; differential equations; linear systems; observability; state feedback; impulse controllability; impulse eliminating semistate feedback gain; impulse observability; impulsive responses; necessary and sufficient conditions; output injection; rectangular descriptor systems; Aircraft; Circuits; Controllability; Impulse testing; Laplace equations; Observability; Output feedback; Robots; Sufficient conditions; System testing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9286
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/9.928613
Filename
928613
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