Algebraic system theory: an analyst's point of view
Algebraic system theory: an analyst's point of view
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代数系统论:分析师的观点
DOI:
10.1016/0016-0032(76)90076-4
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发表时间:
1976
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
P. Fuhrmann
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作者:
P. Fuhrmann
The relevance of algebraic ideas in the study of linear systems has been recognized and stressed by Kalman in various publications culminating in his excellent exposition in Part Four of Ref.(8). This paper is the result of a re-reading of that part. No doubt this is one of the finest achievements in Mathematical System Theory and it seems that Kalman’s recognition of the module structure as the basic structure in linear system theory is bound eventually to become the standard way of exposition for the subject.(Personally this author owes a great deal to this book as the first reading of it aroused his interest in System Theory.) What is there to add to Kalman’s exposition which could throw some more light on a well-documented subject? It seems that there is an omission in one important direction inasmuch as not sufficient contact is made with Rosenbrock’s approach to linear system theory (1). In fact the coprime factorizations playing such an important role in (1) do not appear at all in (3). The aim of this paper is to produce an approach which would synthesize the algebraic approach of Kalman, the state space approach as well as the polynomial matrix methods of Rosenbrock.The need for such a synthesis has been recognized by Eckberg in his doctoral thesis (2) and this paper has a lot in common with the ideas introduced there. The differences are mainly in that Eckberg emphasizes uniqueness via a choice of canonical matrices whereas we take a more abstract and coordinate free route whenever possible. We are left with uniqueness modulo similarity in line with the philosophy of the state space isomorphism theorem.