The trajectory tracking problem for multivariable linear systems is considered. Two different techniques are examined: the output regulation theory (ORT) and the flatness based tracking (FBT). ORT and FBT are two different approaches to solve the tracking problem, and both methods have different restrictions. The tracking controller of the ORT furthermore depends on the solution of the so-calle...

this paper presents an operational formulation of the tau method based upon orthogonal polynomials by using a reduced set of matrix operations for the numerical solution of nonlinear multi-order fractional differential equations(fdes). the main characteristic behind the approach using this technique is that it reduces such problems to those of solving a system of non-linear algebraic equations....

This paper considers the problem of determining whether the observability (or controllability) matrix of a given discrete-time switched linear system reaches full rank for any mode sequence. We show that this problem is in fact decidable, and we provide finite upper bounds on the maximum sequence length at which this property may be satisfied.

The set of controllable switched linear systems is an open set in the space of all switched linear systems. Then it makes sense to compute the distance from a controllable switched linear system to the set of uncontrollable systems. In this work we obtain an upper bound for such distance.

In the literature, several numerical methods are proposed for solvingnth-order fuzzy linear differential equations. However, till now there areonly two analytical methods for the same. In this paper, the fuzzy Kolmogorov'sdifferential equations, obtained with the help of fuzzy Markov modelof piston manufacturing system, are solved by one of these analytical methodsand illustrated that the obtai...

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Let e and Σ be respectively the vector of shocks and its variance covariance matrix in a linear system of equations in reduced form. This article shows that a unique orthogonal variance decomposition can be obtained if we impose a restriction that maximizes the trace of A, a positive definite matrix such that e Az = where z is vector of uncorrelated shocks with unit variance. Such a restriction...

Article history: Received 4 April 2010 Received in revised form 27 June 2011 Accepted 27 June 2011 Available online xxxx