Laboratory for Control, Learning, and Systems Biology

Papers by R.T. Bumby and E.D. Sontag

1983
  1. R.T. Bumby, E.D. Sontag, "Stabilization of polynomially parametrized families of linear systems. The single-input case", Systems Control Lett., vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 251–254, 1983. pdf
    Abstract

    Given a continuous-time family of finite dimensional single input linear systems, parametrized polynomially, such that each of the systems in the family is controllable, there exists a polynomially parametrized control law making each of the systems in the family stable.

1981
  1. R.T. Bumby, E.D. Sontag, H.J. Sussmann, W. Vasconcelos, "Remarks on the pole-shifting problem over rings", J. Pure Appl. Algebra, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 113–127, 1981. pdf
    Abstract

    Problems that appear in trying to extend linear control results to systems over rings R have attracted considerable attention lately. This interest has been due mainly to applications-oriented motivations (in particular, dealing with delay-differential equations), and partly to a purely algebraic interest. Given a square n-matrix F and an n-row matrix G. pole-shifting problems consist in obtaining more or less arbitrary characteristic polynomials for F+GK, for suitable ("feedback") matrices K. A review of known facts is given, various partial results are proved, and the case n=2 is studied in some detail.