Abstract
Positive real systems were first discovered and studied in the Networks and Circuits scientific community, by the German scientist Wilhelm Cauer in his 1926 Ph.D. thesis [1,2,3,4]. However, the term positive real has been coined by Otto Brune in his 1931 Ph.D. thesis [5, 6], building upon the results of Ronald M. Foster [7] (himself inspired by the work in [8], and we stop the genealogy here). O. Brune was in fact the first to provide a precise definition and characterization of a positive real transfer function (see [6, Theorems II, III, IV, V]).
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Notes
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More details on \({\mathscr {L}}_{p}\) spaces can be found in Chap. 4.
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Throughout the book, we shall deal only with causal (non-anticipative) systems.
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Bounded Input-Bounded Output.
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For a holomorphic function f(s), one defines an essential singularity as a point a where neither \(\lim _{s \rightarrow a} f(s)\) nor \(\lim _{s \rightarrow a} \frac{1}{f(s)}\) exist. The function \(e^{\frac{1}{s}}\) has an essential singularity at \(s=0.\) Rational functions do not have essential singularities; they have only poles.
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Minors, or subdeterminants, are the determinants of the square submatrices of a matrix.
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In the case of square matrices, the poles and their multiplicities can be determined from the fact that \(\mathrm{det}(H(s))=c\frac{n(s)}{d(s)}\) for some polynomials n(s) and d(s), after possible cancelation of the common factors. The roots of n(s) are the zeroes of H(s), the roots of d(s) are the poles of H(s) [31, Corollary 2.1].
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Also called in this particular case the Cayley transformation.
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As noted in [38], the third condition encompasses the other two, so that the first and the second conditions are presented only for the sake of clarity.
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This is also proved in [26, Problem 5.2.4], which uses the fact that if (A, B, C, D) is a minimal realization of \(H(s) \in \mathbb {C}^{m \times m}\), then \((A-BD^{-1}C,BD^{-1},-C^{T}(D^{-1})^{T},D^{-1})\) is a minimal realization of \(H^{-1}(s).\) Then use the KYP Lemma (next chapter) to show that \(H^{-1}(s)\) is positive real.
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We use the notation \(\langle f_{t},g_{t}\rangle \) for \(\int _{0}^{t}f(s)g(s)ds.\)
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Similarly as in the foregoing section, this is a consequence of the Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov Lemma for SPR systems.
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Said otherwise, velocities and forces are reciprocal, or dual, variables.
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Brogliato, B., Lozano, R., Maschke, B., Egeland, O. (2020). Positive Real Systems. In: Dissipative Systems Analysis and Control. Communications and Control Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19420-8_2
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