15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
MIMO POSITIVE RESPONSE SYSTEMS UNDER OUTPUT INEQUALITY CONSTRAINTS
Guy Bornard, Costin Ene
Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble, UMR CNRS 5528
ENSIEG-INPG, BP 46, 38402, St. Martin d’Hères, Cedex,
Franc e,
e-mail: Guy.Bornard@inpg.fr

The purpose of this work is the study of the “response positiveness” properties of multi-variable non-minimum phase systems subject to output inequality constraints. In previous work the authors have introduced the notion of positive response systems and their behaviour was studied in the SISO case under output constraints. The present paper shows the MIMO case systems and discusses upon the conservation of the mentioned property linked to the number of active output constraints versus number of system input. It is shown by geometric approach that an over-controlled system has always a “positive response”.
Keywords: geometric approaches, predictive control, constraints, non-minimum phase systems
Session slot T-Tu-M18: Constrained linear systems/Area code 2b : Linear Systems