Title :
Strong excitability of discrete-time positive switched systems
Author :
Valcher, Maria Elena
Author_Institution :
Padova Univ., Padova
Abstract :
In this paper, strong excitability of discrete-time positive switched systems is introduced and characterized in algebraic terms. Being a structural property, which only depends on the nonzero patterns of the matrices involved, strong excitability is investigated by resorting to a graph-theoretic approach, which allows to derive upper bounds on the strong excitability index.
Keywords :
discrete time systems; graph theory; time-varying systems; discrete-time positive switched systems; graph-theoretic approach; strong excitability; Biological system modeling; Chemical processes; Control systems; Differential equations; Evolution (biology); Linear systems; Observability; Switched systems; USA Councils; Upper bound;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2007 46th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1497-0
Electronic_ISBN :
0191-2216
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2007.4434629
