Root Locii for Systems Defined on Hilbert Spaces

DOI10.1109/TAC.2015.2433991zbMATH Open1359.93210arXiv1409.7081OpenAlexW1682201818MaRDI QIDQ2980705FDOQ2980705

Publication date: 3 May 2017

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The root locus is an important tool for analysing the stability and time constants of linear finite-dimensional systems as a parameter, often the gain, is varied. However, many systems are modelled by partial differential equations or delay equations. These systems evolve on an infinite-dimensional space and their transfer functions are not rational. In this paper a rigorous definition of the root locus for infinite-dimensional systems is given and it is shown that the root locus is well-defined for a large class of infinite-dimensional systems. As for finite-dimensional systems, any limit point of a branch of the root locus is a zero. However, the asymptotic behaviour can be quite different from that for finite-dimensional systems. This point is illustrated with a number of examples. It is shown that the familiar pole-zero interlacing property for collocated systems with a Hermitian state matrix extends to infinite-dimensional systems with self-adjoint generator. This interlacing property is also shown to hold for collocated systems with a skew-adjoint generator.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7081

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pole and zero placement problems (93B55) Control/observation systems in abstract spaces (93C25) Operator-theoretic methods (93B28)

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