Bearing-ony observability of mechanical systems (Q5960237)

The authors consider a linear dynamical system \(\dot x=Ax\), \(z=Cx\) with \(m\)-dimensional linear measurement \(z\in Z\), \(A\) and \(C\) are constant matrices of \((n\times n)\) and \((m\times m)\) dimensions, respectively. This system is linearly observable if by means of the relation \(z(t) \in Z^T\) the relation \(x(t) \in X^T\) is restored unambiguously. The measurements \(z'(t)\), \(z(t)\) are called really (complexly) projectively equivalent, if \(z'(t) = \lambda(t)z(t)\) holds for a real (complex) function \(\lambda(t)\). The authors show that the conditions for projective observability can be obtained by the methods of linear algebra.