15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
INPUT TRACKING FOR STABLE LINEAR SYSTEMS
Xiaoming Hu*, Ulf T. Jönsson*, and Clyde F. Martin
* Division of Optimization and Systems Theory
Royal Institute of Technology
10044 Stockholm, Sweden
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas, USA

In this paper, the input-output behavior of a linear stable system is studied in some detail. Some results are presented to make more precise the folklore statement that outputs follow inputs for stable linear systems. Based on these results, it is also discussed how to choose an output and how to fuse a number of sensor outputs, to best track the input in stationarity.
Keywords: Tracking, sensor fusion, linear systems
Session slot T-Th-M21: Posters of Design Methods and Optimal Control/Area code 2b : Linear Systems