Title : 
Controllability and observability of composite systems
         
        
            Author : 
Sinha, N.K. ; El-Sherief, H.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
McMaster University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Hamilton, Canada
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A computationally efficient algorithm is presented for the determination of the controllability and observability of large composite systems. It is based on the application of reduced outer products for the computation of the rank of a rectangular matrix.
         
        
            Keywords : 
controllability; large-scale systems; observability; system theory; computationally efficient algorithm; controllability; large composite systems; large scale systems; observability; rectangular matrix rank computation; reduced outer products; system theory;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Electronics Letters
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1049/el:19770298