Rational representation of behaviors: Interconnectability and stabilizability (Q1377566)

This paper uses relationships between system variables as a starting point. The systems studied are mainly discrete-time systems, where time is running over the nonnegative integers and specifically those systems whose behavior is a shift-invariant, closed, linear subspace of \(\ell_{2}\), the set of square summable sequences. In the first part of the paper, representation issues are tackled. Kernel and image representations of dynamical systems are introduced and the former are fully characterized. State space models based on rational representations of systems are constructed directly from these kernel and image representations. The second part of the paper, which has been motivated by applications in control, studies elementary properties such as stabilizability and interconnectability of dynamical systems. These notions are characterized in terms of kernel and image representations. The concept of instantaneous interconnectability of systems is formalized as the possibility of realizing an immediate joint continuation of trajectories of two systems and an equivalence characterization for the property is found under some conditions.