Minimal State-Space Realization in Linear System Theory: An Overview

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B. De Schutter, "Minimal state-space realization in linear system theory: An overview," Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Special Issue on Numerical Analysis in the 20th Century - Vol. I: Approximation Theory, vol. 121, no. 1-2, pp. 331-354, Sept. 2000.

Abstract

We give a survey of the results in connection with the minimal state space realization problem for linear time-invariant systems. We start with a brief historical overview and a short introduction to linear system theory. Next we present some of the basic algorithms for the reduction of non-minimal state space realizations and for the minimal state space realization of infinite or finite sequences of Markov parameters of linear time-invariant systems. Finally we discuss some extensions of this problem to other classes of systems and point out some related problems.

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@article{DeS:99-07,
   author  = {De Schutter, Bart},
   title   = {Minimal State-Space Realization in Linear System Theory: {A}n
              Overview},
   journal = {Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, \normalfont
              Special Issue on Numerical Analysis in the 20th Century -- Vol.\ 
              I: Approximation Theory},
   volume  = {121},
   number  = {1--2},
   pages   = {331--354},
   month   = sep,
   year    = {2000}
   }


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