This note considers the solution to the generalized Sylvester matrix equation AV+BW=VF with F being an arbitrary matrix,where V and W are the matrices to be determined. With the help of the Kronecker map,an explicit parametric solution to this matrix equation is established. The proposed solution possesses a very simple and neat form,and allows the matrix F to be undetermined.
A parametric approach to robust fault detection in linear systems with unknown disturbances is presented. The residual is generated using full-order state observers (FSO). Based on an analytical solution to a type of Sylvester matrix equations, the parameterization of the observer gain matrix is given. In terms of the design degrees of freedom provided by the parametric observer design and a group of introduced parameter vectors, a sufficient and necessary condition for fullorder state observer design with disturbance decoupling is then established. By properly constraining the design parameters according to this proposed condition, the effect of the disturbance on the residual signal is also decoupled, and a simple algorithm is developed. The presented approach offers all the degrees of design freedom. Finally, a numerical example illustrates the effect of the proposed approach.
Most currently existing investigations on the observability of passive guidance systems can only provide a qualitative result. In this paper, a quantitative method, which utilizes Cramér-Rao lower bound in the estimability analysis of closed-loop guidance systems with bearings-only measurements, is proposed. The new method provides an intuitive result for observability of the guidance system through graphical analysis. As a demonstration, a numerical example is presented, in which the degrees of observability of the guidance systems under two commonly used guidance laws are compared by using the new approach.
