International Journal of Control, Vol.89, No.4, 701-721, 2016
Stabilising compensators for linear time-varying differential systems
In this paper, we describe a constructive test to decide whether a given linear time-varying (LTV) differential system admits a stabilising compensator for the control tasks of tracking, disturbance rejection or model matching and construct and parametrise all of them if at least one exists. In analogy to the linear time-invariant (LTI) case, the ring of stable rational functions, noncommutative in the LTV situation, and the Kucera-Youla parametrisation play prominent parts in the theory. We transfer Blumthaler's thesis from the LTI to the LTV case and sharpen, complete and simplify the corresponding results in the book 'Linear Time-Varying Systems' by Bourles and Marinescu.
Keywords:93C05;93B25;93D20;34H15;93B52;93D15;Behaviour;model matching;stabilising compensator;time-varying;disturbance rejection;tracking;exponential stability