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Doubly coprime representation of linear systems and its application to simultaneous stabilization
1 Department of Information Sciences, Tokyo Denki University, Hatoyama-Machi, Hiki-Gun, Saitama 350-0394, Japan
This paper develops a new representation theory of multivariable time-invariant linear systems based on the well-known coprime factorizations of their transfer matrices. This representation fully uses the algebraic structure of coprime factorizations, and hence has a number of advantages for describing various properties of linear systems in simpler and/or more compact forms than the usual transfer matrix representation. In the framework of this new representation theory, various stability and stabilizability properties of linear systems are characterized and finally a simultaneous stabilization problem for a given set of linear systems is examined.
Keywords: transfer matrix; doubly coprime factorization; simultaneous stabilizability.
Received 14 February 2002. Accepted 1 May 2002.