Control theory for linear systems (Q5926533)

This book presents several important ways of handling disturbances in linear control systems. The authors emphasize the structural point of view and use the tool of the ``geometric'' approach. Chapter one motivates the reader with the satellite control problem. It is nonlinear in nature but they linearize the model. Chapter two shows several mathematical tools which will be used later (linear algebra, differential equations). Chapter three considers basics on linear control systems in the state space configuration. The topics cover controllability, observability, detectability, stabilizability, static versus dynamic feedback. In chapter four, the authors introduce controlled invariance, controllability subspaces and stabilizability subspaces. With this they solve the disturbance decoupling problem (DDP) by static feedback as well as the DDP with internal stability and finally external stabilization. In chapter five conditioned invariance is introduced. Next, one constructs observers in the presence of disturbances. The topics of chapter four and five are combined in the next one to treat similar problems via dynamic output feedback. Chapter seven is about polynomial matrices, the Smith form and further on transmission polynomials and zeros and relate them to weakly unobservable subspaces. Chapter eight considers situations when the inputs are distributions. The strongly reachable subspace and the distributionally weakly unobservable subspace are presented and are used to give state space characterizations of right-invertibility. Chapter nine is devoted to regulator synthesis. Issues of existence and well-posedness are characterized from structural information (in particular right-invertibility). The rest of the book deals with optimal control problems and relates them to the topics under investigation. First in chapter ten one has a general introduction to the linear quadratic regulator (finite and infinite horizon) problem and the solutions are parametrized by the Riccati equation. In chapter eleven, the authors show how the \(H_2\) problem (treated in both the static and dynamic feedback cases) is reduced to a DDP. Finally, the authors treat the \(H_\infty\) control problem in both finite and infinite horizon by static state feedback (chap. 13) and dynamic output feedback (chap. 14). There is an appendix on distribution theory and each chapter ends with exercises and bibliographical information. A bibliography (232 entries) and an index end this volume. This good book will be of interest to students as well a systems scientists interested in the topics presented. It was a nice and stimulating idea to bring the areas of DDP, regulation and \(H_2/H_\infty\) control with some connections in a book format.