Positive Linear Observers for Linear Compartmental Systems

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The author considers finite-dimensional linear systems such that for all nonnegative initial conditions the following is true: whatever the controls are, as long as they are nonnegative the state and the output remain nonnegative. The basic question addressed in this paper is to give necessary and sufficient conditions such that there is a linear observer that always gives a nonnegative estimate of the state of the plant under consideration. The author solves in a well written paper this question for so-called compartmental systems, in discrete- and in continuous time. Besides, she gives algorithms to calculate positive observers when they exist.




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