Chapter E Problem Sheet 5 (Lectures 10–11)

  • 1. Consider the first order scalar differential equation \(\dot {x}=w+u\), \(z=x\), with exo-system \(\dot {x}_e=0\), \(w=x_e\), \(x_e(0)=d\in \mR \), i.e.

    \[ A=0,~~B_1=1,~~B_2=1,~~C_1=1,~~D_{11}=0,~~A_e=0,~~C_e=1. \]

    • (a) Show that the Rosenbrock matrix \(\sbm {sI-A&-B_2\\C_1&0}\) is surjective for \(s=0\) (the only eigenvalue of \(A_e\)).

    • (b) Show that \((A,B_2)\) is stabilizable.

    • (c) What does (a) allow us to conclude about the solvability of the regulator equations and, in combination with (b), about solvability of the full-information disturbance rejection problem?

    • (d) Why can we not use the transfer function \(C_1(sI-A)^{-1}B_2\) to draw the conclusions in (c)?

    • (e) Find a control \(u\) which solves the full-information disturbance rejection problem.

  • 2. Consider the undamped second order scalar differential equation

    \[ \ddot {q}+q=u. \]

    Let \(x:=\sbm {q\\\dot {q}}\). The exo-system is \(\dot {x}_e=A_ex_e\), \(w=C_ex_e\) with

    \[ A_e=\bbm {0&1\\-1&0},\qquad C_e=\bbm {1&0}. \]

    Define \(z:=q-w\), so that

    \[ A=\bbm {0&1\\-1&0},\quad B_1=\bbm {0\\0},\quad B_2=\bbm {0\\1},\quad C_1=\bbm {1&0},\quad D_{11}=-1. \]

    • (a) Show that the Rosenbrock matrix \(\sbm {sI-A&-B_2\\C_1&0}\) is surjective for all \(s\in \mC \).

    • (b) Show that \((A,B_2)\) is stabilizable.

    • (c) What does (a) allow us to conclude about the solvability of the regulator equations and, in combination with (b), about solvability of the full-information disturbance rejection problem?

    • (d) Why can we not use the transfer function \(C_1(sI-A)^{-1}B_2\) to draw the conclusions in (c)?

    • (e) Find a control \(u\) which solves the full-information output regulation problem.

  • 3. Consider the second order scalar differential equation \(\ddot {q}+2\dot {q}+q=w+u\), \(z=\dot {q}\) and \(x:=\sbm {q\\\dot {q}}\). Further consider the exo-system \(\dot {x}_e=0\), \(w=x_e\), \(x_e(0)=d\in \mR \). This means that

    \[ A=\bbm {0&1\\-1&-2},\quad B_1=\bbm {0\\1},\quad B_2=\bbm {0\\1},\quad C_1=\bbm {0&1},\quad D_{11}=0,\quad A_e=0,\quad C_e=1. \]

    • (a) Show that the Rosenbrock matrix \(\sbm {sI-A&-B_2\\C_1&0}\) is not surjective for \(s=0\).

    • (b) Show that the regulator equations have a solution.

    • (c) Why does the combination of (a) and (b) not contradict Proposition 10.4?

    • (d) Find a control \(u\) which solves the full-information output regulation problem.

  • 4. Consider the first order scalar differential equation

    \[ \dot {x}+2x=3w+u,\qquad z=x,\qquad y=x, \]

    with exo-system

    \[ \dot {x}_e=0,\qquad x_e(0)=d\in \mR , \qquad w=x_e. \]

    Solve the measurement feedback disturbance rejection problem.

  • 5. Consider the first order scalar differential equation

    \[ \dot {x}+x=u,\qquad z=x-w, \]

    with exo-system

    \[ \dot {x}_e=0,\qquad w=x_e,\qquad x_e(0)=r\in \mR , \]

    and measurement

    \[ y=x. \]

    • (a) Show that \(\left (\sbm {A&B_1C_e\\0&A_e},\bbm {C_2&D_{21}C_e}\right )\) is not detectable.

    • (b) By considering the closed-loop system

      \[ \bbm {\dot {x}\\\dot {x}_c}=\bbm {A&B_2C_c\\B_cC_2&A_c}\bbm {x\\x_c}+\bbm {B_1\\B_cD_{21}}w,\qquad z=\bbm {C_1&0}\bbm {x\\x_c}+D_{11}w, \]

      with \(A\), \(B_1\), \(B_2\), \(C_1\), \(D_{11}\), \(C_2\) and \(D_{21}\) from above and arbitrary \(A_c,B_c,C_c\in \mR \), show that the regulation requirement in the measurement feedback output regulation problem cannot be satisfied, i.e. show that there exist \(x(0)\), \(x_c(0)\) and \(x_e(0)\) such that \(\lim _{t\to \infty }z(t)=0\) does not hold.