Sufficient conditions for arbitrary pole assignment by constant decentralized output feedback (Q1913681)

The problem of arbitrary pole assignment by decentralized feedback, where the controller characterizes partial coupling instead of the full coupling associated with the centralized case, is studied in this paper. Necessary conditions as well as rather restrictive sufficient conditions for generic pole assignability by a decentralized controller have been found previously. This paper extends the results on sufficient conditions for the existence of real solutions in terms of the heights of the first Whitney classes corresponding to the channel pairs of \(m_i\) outputs, \(p_i\) inputs, and some appropriate partitioning of the number of states. These results extend to the decentralized case the odd intersection framework approach based on the heights.