A reduction technique for Generalised Riccati Difference Equations

This paper proposes a reduction technique for the generalised Riccati difference equation arising in optimal control and optimal filtering. This technique relies on a study on the generalised discrete algebraic Riccati equation. In particular, an analysis on the eigen- structure of the corresponding extended symplectic pencil enables to identify a subspace in which all the solutions of the generalised discrete algebraic Riccati equation are coin- cident. This subspace is the key to derive a decomposition technique for the generalised Riccati difference equation that isolates its nilpotent part, which becomes constant in a number of steps equal to the nilpotency index of the closed-loop, from another part that can be computed by iterating a reduced-order generalised Riccati difference equation

The extended symplectic pencil and the finite-horizon LQ problem with two-sided boundary conditions

This note introduces a new analytic approach to the solution of a very general class of finite-horizon optimal control problems formulated for discrete-time systems. This approach provides a parametric expression for the optimal control sequences, as well as the corresponding optimal state trajectories, by exploiting a new decomposition of the so-called extended symplectic pencil. Importantly, the results established in this paper hold under assumptions that are weaker than the ones considered in the literature so far. Indeed, this approach does not require neither the regularity of the symplectic pencil, nor the modulus controllability of the underlying system. In the development of the approach presented in this paper, several ancillary results of independent interest on generalised Riccati equations and on the eigenstructure of the extended symplectic pencil will also be presented

Structural invariants of two-dimensional systems

In this paper, some fundamental structural properties of two-dimensional (2-D) systems which remain invariant under feedback and output-injection transformation groups are identified and investigated for the first time. As is well known, structural invariants that follow from the definition of controlled and conditioned invariance, output-nulling, input-containing, self-bounded and self-hidden subspaces play pivotal roles in many theoretical studies of systems theory and in the solution of several control/estimation problems. These concepts are developed and studied within a 2-D context in this paper

Repeated eigenstructure assignment in the computation of friends of output-nulling subspaces

This paper is concerned with the parameterisation of basis matrices and the simultaneous computation of friends of the output nulling subspaces V*, V*g and R* with the assignment of the corresponding inner and outer closed-loop free eigenstructure. Differently from the classical techniques presented in the literature so far on this topic, which are based on the standard pole assignment algorithms and are therefore applicable only in the non-defective case, the method presented in this paper can be applied in the case of closed-loop eigenvalues with arbitrary multiplicity