Observer-Based Realization of Control Systems

Abstract: Lebesgue-type of dynamic control systems and dimension-keeping semi-tensor product (DK-STP) of matrices are introduced. Using bridge matrices, the DK-STP is used to construct approximated observer-based realization (OR) of linear control systems, as Lebesgue-type control systems, are proposed. A necessary and sufficient condition for the OR-system to have exactly same observer dynamics is obtained. When the exact OR-system does not exist, the extended OR-system, which contains observers of the original system as part of its state variables, is presented. Moreover, the (minimum) feedback (extended) OR-system is also constructed, and its relationship with Kalman's minimum realization is revealed. Finally, the technique developed for linear control systems has been extended to affine nonlinear control systems. The purpose of OR-system is to provide a new technique to deal with large scale complex systems.