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Structured real radius of controllability for higher order LTI systems

Optimization and Control 2019-05-16 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the problem of computing the nearest uncontrollable (C-uncontrollable) system to a given higher order system. The distance to the nearest uncontrollable system, also termed as the radius of controllability, is a good measure of gauging the numerical robustness of the given system with respect to controllability. Here, we invoke the equivalence of C-controllability of a higher order system with full rank property of a certain Toeplitz structured matrix. This enables us to pose the problem of computing the radius of controllability as equivalent to the problem of computing the nearest structured low rank approximation of this Toeplitz structured matrix. Through several numerical examples and comparison with the benchmark numerical problem, we illustrate that our approach works well.

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@article{arxiv.1905.05977,
  title  = {Structured real radius of controllability for higher order LTI systems},
  author = {Tanay Saha and Swanand Khare and Subashish Datta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.05977},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

A shorter version of this paper is accepted for publication in the proceedings of 27th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED 19), July 2019, Akko, ISRAEL

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