Equivalence-Based Model of Dimension-Varying Linear Systems

Abstract: Dimension-varying linear systems are investigated. First, a dimension-free state space is proposed. A cross dimensional distance is constructed to glue vectors of different dimensions together to form a cross-dimensional topological space. This distance leads to projections over different dimensional Euclidean spaces and the corresponding linear systems on them, which provide a connection among linear systems with different dimensions. Based on these projections, an equivalence of vectors and an equivalence of matrices over different dimensions are proposed. It follows that the dynamics on quotient space is obtained, which provides a proper model for cross-dimensional systems. Finally, using lifts of dynamic systems on quotient space to Euclidean spaces of different dimensions, a cross-dimensional model is proposed to deal with the dynamics of dimension-varying process of linear systems. On the cross-dimensional model a control is designed to realize the transfer between models on Euclidean spaces of different dimensions.