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Functional controllability and right invertibility for systems over rings
1 Dipartimento di Elettronica e Automatica, Universita' di Ancona, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy 2 Università di Ancona, Dipartimento di Matematica V Volterra, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
This paper is devoted to study the structure of linear systems with coefficients in a ring in connection with the so-called functional controllability property and the right inversion problem. A geometric characterization of functional controllability is given and a related notion of relative degree is introduced. Applications to delay-differential systems are considered.
Keywords: linear systems over ring; output reproducibility; delay-differential systems.