Title : 
What is the dimension of the minimal realization of a nonlinear system?
         
        
            Author : 
Zheng, Y.F. ; Liu, P. ; Zinober, A.S.I. ; Moog, C.H.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inst. of Syst. Sci., East China Normal Univ., Shanghai, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The minimal realizations of nonlinear systems are the strongly accessible and observable realizations. This paper presents a straightforward technique to establish the dimension of a minimal realization, if it exists, by means of the input/output equation
         
        
            Keywords : 
nonlinear systems; realisation theory; I/O equation; input/output equation; minimal realization dimension; nonlinear systems; observable realizations; strongly accessible realizations; Control systems; Control theory; Linear systems; Mathematics; Nonlinear control systems; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear systems; State-space methods; Statistics; Transfer functions;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Decision and Control, 1995., Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
New Orleans, LA
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-2685-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CDC.1995.478905