Numerical Methods for Linear Control Systems

Numerical Methods for Linear Control Systems Design and Analysis is an interdisciplinary textbook aimed at systematic descriptions and implementations of numerically-viable algorithms based on well-established, efficient and stable modern numerical linear techniques for mathematical problems arising in the design and analysis of linear control systems both for the first- and second-order models.

Introduction and Overview; Review of Basic Concepts and Results from Theoretical Linear Algebra; Fundamental Tools and Concepts from Numerical Linear Algebra; Canonical Forms Obtained via Orthogonal Transformations; Linear State Space Models and Solutions of the State Equations; Contollability, Observability and Distance to Uncontrollability; Stability, Inertia and Robust Stability; Numerical Solutions and Conditioning of Lyapunov and Sylvester Equations; Realization and Subspace Identification; Feedback Stabilization, Eigenvalue Assignment and Optimal Control; Numerical Methods and Conditioning of the Eigenvalue Assignment Problems; State Estimation; Numerical Solutions and Conditioning of Algebraic Riccati Equations; Internal Balancing and Model Reduction; Large-Scale Matrix Computations in Control: Krylov Subspace Methods; Numerical Methods for Matrix-Second-Order Control Systems; Existing Software for Control Systems Design and Analysis

practicing and academic control engineers and theorists, vibration, aerospace, automotive, and structural dynamics engineers, applied and computational linear algebraists