Representations and structural properties of periodic systems

  • Authors:
  • José Carlos Aleixo;Jan Willem Polderman;Paula Rocha

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal;Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands;Department of Mathematics, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We consider periodic behavioral systems as introduced in [Kuijper, M., & Willems, J. C. (1997). A behavioral framework for periodically time-varying systems. In Proceedings of the 36th conference on decision & control (Vol. 3, pp. 2013-2016). San Diego, California, USA, 10-12 December 1997] and analyze two main issues: behavioral representation/controllability and autonomy. More concretely, we study the equivalence and the minimality of kernel representations, and introduce latent variable (and, in particular, image) representations. Moreover we relate the controllability of a periodic system with the controllability of an associated time-invariant system known as lifted system, and derive a controllability test. Further, we prove the existence of an autonomous/controllable decomposition similar to the time-invariant case. Finally, we introduce a new concept of free variables and inputs, which can be regarded as a generalization of the one adopted for time-invariant systems, but appears to be more adequate for the periodic case.