Recent developments on nonmodal and partial modal approaches for control of vibration (Q1294574)

The paper presents a brief overview of some of the recent nonmodal and partial modal algorithms for feedback stabilization and eigenvalue assignment arising in the control of vibrations. It is assumed that the corresponding systems are modeled by second-order matrix differential equations. The problems under consideration include partial eigenvalue assignment, robust eigenvalue assignment, nonmodal solution to the feedback stabilization problem and partial modal solution to the partial eigenvalue problem for second-order control systems. It is emphasized that an advantage of the algorithms discussed is that they work exclusively with the data matrices of the second-order pencil which allow to exploit structural properties such as symmetry, definiteness and sparsity.