15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
EXTERNALLY AND INTERNALLY POSITIVE TIME-VARYING LINEAR SYSTEMS
Tadeusz Kaczorek
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics
00-662 Warszawa, Koszykowa 75, Poland
e-mail: kaczorek@isep.pw.edu.pl

The notions of externally positive and internally positive time-varying linear systems are introduced. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the external positivity and internal positivity of time-varying linear systems are established. Sufficient conditions for the reachability of internally positive time-varying linear systems are presented.
Session slot T-We-M14: Positive linear systems/Area code 2b : Linear Systems