Partial stabilisation of large-scale discrete-time linear control systems

  • Authors:
  • Peter Benner;Maribel Castillo;Enrique S. Quintana-Orti

  • Affiliations:
  • Fakultat fur Mathematik, Technische Universitat Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany.;Depto. de Ingenieria y Ciencia de Computadores, Universidad Jaume I, 12.071 Castellon, Spain.;Depto. de Ingenieria y Ciencia de Computadores, Universidad Jaume I, 12.071 Castellon, Spain

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We propose a parallel algorithm for stabilising large, discrete-time, linear control systems on a Beowulf cluster. Our algorithm first separates the Schur stable part of the linear control system using an inverse free iteration for the matrix disc function and then computes a stabilising feedback matrix for the unstable part. This stage requires the numerical solution of a Stein equation. This linear matrix equation is solved using the sign function method after applying a Cayley transformation to the original equation. The experimental results on a cluster composed of Intel PII processors and a Myrinet interconnection network show the parallelism and scalability of our approach.