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Decompositions Of Nonlinear Input-Output Systems To Zero The Output, W. Steven Gray, Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard, Alexander Schmeding
Decompositions Of Nonlinear Input-Output Systems To Zero The Output, W. Steven Gray, Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard, Alexander Schmeding
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Consider an input–output system where the output is the tracking error given some desired reference signal. It is natural to consider under what conditions the problem has an exact solution, that is, the tracking error is exactly the zero function. If the system has a well defined relative degree and the zero function is in the range of the input–output map, then it is well known that the system is locally left invertible, and thus, the problem has a unique exact solution. A system will fail to have relative degree when more than one exact solution exists. The general goal …