Variation diminishing linear time-invariant systems

DOI10.1016/J.AUTOMATICA.2021.109985MaRDI QIDQ2063768zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Grussler, Rodolphe Sepulchre

Publication date 3 January 2022

Published in Automatica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10030

zbMATH Keywords

convex optimizationtime-invarianttotal positivitypositive systemvariation diminishing\(n\)-dimensional systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear systems in control theory (93C05) Multivariable systems, multidimensional control systems (93C35) Positive control/observation systems (93C28)

Abstract: This paper studies the variation diminishing property of $k$-positive linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, which map inputs with $k-1$ sign changes to outputs with at most the same variation. We characterize this property for the Toeplitz and Hankel operators of finite-dimensional systems. Our main result is that these operators have a dominant approximation in the form of series or parallel interconnections of $k$ first order positive systems. This is shown by expressing the $k$-positivity of a LTI system as the external positivity (that is, $1$-positivity) of $k$ compound LTI systems. Our characterization generalizes well known properties of externally positive systems ($k=1$) and totally positive systems ($k=infty$; also known as relaxation systems).

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