15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
STABILITY AND ALMOST STATE DECOUPLING OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS
Tianguang Chua, Cishen Zhangb, Long Wanga
a Center for Systems and Control, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China. E-mail: chutg@pku.edu.cn
b Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne,
VIC 3010, Australia. E-mail: c.zhang@ee.mu.oz.au

This paper is concerned with a class of multidimensional (m-D) systems. It first presents results on stability and componentwise exponential convergence analysis of m-D systems. The comparison principle and the technique of mixed monotone decomposition are used to obtain exponential convergence estimates for the system state. The paper further analyzes the almost state decoupling problem of m-D systems. It is shown that the m-D system state can be almost decoupled by similarity transformations if the system matrices generate a solvable Lie algebra. The solvability condition is simple and can be checked directly from the system matrices.
Keywords: Multidimensional systems, stability, mixed monotone decomposition method, state decoupling, similarity transformation
Session slot T-Mo-M01: Signal Processing/Area code 3a : Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing