Talk abstract:

Systems, States and their Representations

Jan C. Willems
University of Groningen
Mathematics Institute
P.O. Box 800
9700 AV Groningen
The Netherlands
J.C.Willems@math.rug.nl
http://www.math.rug.nl/~willems

In this talk, I will first discuss some basic mathematical notions pertaining to dynamical systems, including multidimensional ones. Subsequently, we will discuss representation questions, in particular the existence of image representations, and their relation to controllability and observability. We will then turn our attention to state space systems, and present an algorithm for obtaining a state space representation of a system given in image representation.

Material used during the talk

Back to Codes, Systems and Graphical Models

1998-1999 Mathematics in Biology