Output feedback/feedforward control of discrete linear repetitive processes for performance and disturbance rejection

Repetitive processes propagate information in two independent directions and are of both systems theoretic and applications interest. They cannot be controlled by direct extension of existing techniques from either standard (termed ID here) or 2D systems theory. Here we give new results on the design of physically based feedforward/feedback control laws to achieve desired performance and disturbance decoupling in the sense defined in the body of the paper. The new results are for the case when only output (as opposed to state) information is used to activate the control law