Linear time-varying systems. Algebraic-analytic approach (Q532993)

This book presents a new approach to analysis and control of linear time-varying (LTV) systems using the formalism of systems over a ring of operators. A linear time-varying system is not defined as usually by a transfer matrix or in state-space form, but as an intrinsic mathematical object, namely a finitely presented module over a ring of operators. This module is shown to capture the information contained in the system equations up to the various equivalent ways to write these equations (in different orders, and using various variables). The approach proposed in this book, based on algebraic analysis, allows to formulate and solve several key problems in the control of LTV systems and to display the algebraic structure of an LTV system which is hidden, for instance, when the gain scheduling approach is used. The algebraic-analytic approach can also show to mathematicians how algebraic analysis can be used to solve engineering applications. The reader is assumed not only to have a background in algebra and analysis, which is standard for people having an engineering degree, and to know the basic problems and methods of classical control theory, but to know a large number of mathematical notions and results that are not usually familiar to control theorists. In the first part of the book, a self contained presentation of the mathematical notions required in the second part of the book is given. {\parindent=3mm \begin{itemize} \item{}Part I (Chapters 1 to 4) presents the mathematical background: \begin{itemize} \item{}Chapter 1: Categories, Divisibility and Groups; \item{}Chapter 2: Rings and Modules; \item{}Chapter 3: Homological Algebra; \item{}Chapter 4: Galois Theory and Skew Polynomials. \end{itemize} \item{}Part II (Chapter 5 to 7) presents the algebraic theory of linear systems: \begin{itemize} \item{}Chapter 5: Systems and Behaviors: A General Setting; \item{}Chapter 6: Finite Poles and Zeros of LTV Systems; \item{}Chapter 7: Structure at Infinity and Impulsive Behaviors. \end{itemize} \item{}Part III (Chapter 8 to 11) is devoted to applications in both fields of analysis and control: \begin{itemize} \item{}Chapter 8: Analysis of LTV Systems; \item{}Chapter 9: Modeling:Choice of the Input Variables of an LTV System; \item{}Chapter 10: Open Loop Control by Model-Matching; \item{}Chapter 11: Closed Loop Control by Output Feedback Pole Placement. \end{itemize} \item{}Part IV (Chapter 12) contains a few complements \begin{itemize} \item{}Chapter 12: Analytic Theory of LTV Systems. \end{itemize} \end{itemize}}