Abstract and Applied Analysis

Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 512465, 10 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/512465

Research Article

General Solution and Observability of Singular Differential Systems with Delay

Jiang Wei

School of Mathematical Science, University of Anhui, Hefei, Anhui 230039, China

Received 25 July 2013; Accepted 4 October 2013

Academic Editor: Shengqiang Liu

Copyright © 2013 Jiang Wei. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

We study singular differential systems with delay. A general description for the solutions of singular differential systems with delay is given and a necessary and sufficient condition for exact observability of singular differential systems with delay is derived.

1. Introduction

In many practical systems, such as economic systems, power systems, biological systems, ecosystems, and so on, due to the transmission of information need time span, usually there are the phenomena of delay. Up to now, many authors have paid much attention to the study for delay, and many excellent results have been given [1–5]. We notice that in some systems we must consider their character of dynamic state and static state synchronously, these result in many good consequences for singular systems that have been obtained recently [6–9].

We must emphasize that there are a lot of systems in which there exist the phenomena of delay and singular simultaneously, we call such systems as the singular differential systems with delay. These systems have many special characters. If we want to describe them more exactly, more accurately design them, and more effectively control them, we must pay tremendous endeavor to investigate them, but that is obviously very difficult. In [3, 10–19], authors have discussed such systems, and got some consequences. But in the study for such systems, there are still many problems to be considered.

Generally, the singular differential control systems with delay can be written as

where is a state vector, is a control vector, is a singular matrix, is an admissible initial state functional, is the Banach space of continuous functions mapping the interval into with the topology of uniform convergence, the norm of an element in can be designated as , and .

The autonomous linear form of (1) can be written as

where is a state vector [6, 7], is a control vector [6, 7], is a singular matrix, , and are constant matrix, is a sufficiently smooth function, and is the initial state function.

Usually, the output functions of (2) can be written as:

where is an output vector [6, 7], is a state vector, is a control vector, and and are constant matrices.

Definition 1. Singular differential control systems with delay (2) and (3) are observable on if the initial function in can be uniquely determined from the knowledge of the control and observation over .

Remark 2. The observability concept in Definition 1 comes from [4], which is sometimes called exact observability.

Recently, many authors have discussed the observability of singular differential control systems without delay [6–8], but for such systems the discussion is much easier than that for singular differential control systems with delay. This is because singular differential control systems without delay can be changed as two autocephalous systems [7, 8] as follows:

and they can be discussed, respectively. But for singular differential systems with delay (2), the canonical forms are

which generally cannot be discussed, respectively.

In papers [10, 16], we have had some results about the controllability of singular control systems with control-delay and the controllability of singular control systems with state-delay, respectively. As the corresponding concept of controllability, observability is obviously and important concept. As we know, up to now, there exists hardly any discussion on the observability of singular differential systems with delay.

In this paper, we study singular differential systems with delay. Firstly, for the singular differential systems with delay, the general solutions will be given. Then, for the observability of singular differential systems with delay, we will give criterion.

2. General Solutions of Singular Differential Systems with Delay

In the study of the observability of singular differential systems with delay, we will use some concepts and conclusions. Now, we give some of them, and specially give the general solutions of singular differential systems with delay (2).

Definition 3. Let be a square matrix, if there exists a matrix satisfy ,,, we call the Drazin inverse matrix of matrix , simply -inverse matrix. Where is the index of matrix ; it is the smallest nonnegative integer which makes be true.

From [3] or [7], we have the following.

Lemma 4. For any square matrix , its Drazin inverse matrix is existent and unique. If the Jordan normalized form of is , then . Here, is a nilpotent matrix, and are invertible matrices.

Consider the following systems

and systems:

It is not difficult to prove the following.

Lemma 5. If and are, respectively, the solution to (6) and (7), then is the solution to (2).

Definition 6. Let , is called as the first class foundation solution of singular differential systems with delay, if it satisfies matrix equations the following:

Definition 7. Let , is called as the second class foundation solution of singular differential systems with delay, if it satisfies matrix equations the following:

where is a delta function or impulse function (see [3] or [7]).

Lemma 8. For delta function , one has

This Lemma is well known. The proof will be omitted.

Lemma 9. For any square matrix , one has:

Proof . Let be an identity matrix with appropriate dimension, and

from Lemma 4, we have

For is a nilpotent matrix, is invertible. Consider the following

That means (11) is true.

Definition 10. If , we call matrix couple regular. If is regular, we call system (2) regular.

Remark 11. Using the method of [3], we can prove that if is regular, systems (2) (for any consistent initial state function ), (8), and (9) are solvable.

Theorem 12. Suppose that matrix couple is regular, is the solution of (6); then when ,

when ,

where is the first class of foundation solution of singular differential systems with delay, is the second class of foundation solution of singular differential systems with delay.

To prove Theorem 12, we can partition homogeneous singular differential systems with delay (6) into two classes of systems as follows:

We can easily prove the following.

Lemma 13. If , and are respectively the solution of (17) and (18), then is the solution of (6).

Lemma 14. Suppose that matrix couple is regular, then the solution of (17) can be written as

where is the first class of foundation solution of singular differential systems with delay.

Proof . Since is the first class of foundation solution of singular differential systems with delay, satisfies matrix equations (8). Take Laplace transform for (8), we have

That is,

Because is regular, for large enough, is invertible, so we have

If is the solution of (17), we have

That is,

Since , from (22), we can see that

Define an auxiliary function as follows:

we have

Then, we have

When ,

when ,

The proof of Theorem 12 is completed.

Lemma 15. Suppose that matrix couple is regular, then the solution of (18) can be written as

where is the second class of foundation solution of singular differential systems with delay.

Proof. Since is the second class of foundation solution of singular differential systems with delay, satisfies matrix equations (9). Take Laplace transform for (9), we have

That is

Because is regular, for large enough, is invertible, so, we have

If is the solution of (18), we have

That is,

Then,

From Lemma 9, we have

from (34) and (38), we know

Use auxiliary function as above, we have

Then, we have

When ,

when ,

This will complete the proof of Lemma 15.

From Lemma 13, 14 and 15 we can easily see that Theorem 12 is true.

Just as the proof of Theorem 12, we can prove that.

Theorem 16. Suppose that matrix couple is regular, then the solution of (7) can be written as

where is the first class of foundation solution of singular differential systems with delay and is the second class of foundation solution of singular differential systems with delay.

From Lemma 5 and Theorems 12 and 16, we have the following.

Theorem 17. Suppose that matrix couple is regular, then is the solution of (2), when ,

when ,

where is the first class of foundation solution of singular differential systems with delay and is the second class of foundation solution of singular differential systems with delay.

Remark 18. As the illustration in Section 2, if is regular, by the method of step by step, we can prove that both (8) and (9) are uniquely solvable. We can see that for any consistent initial function , Theorem 17 will be true. Such expression of general solution of (2) will be very useful in the study of the characteristic of (2), such as the observability, the controllability, the optimal control, and so on.

3. Observability of Singular Differential Systems with Delay

Now, let us discuss observability of singular differential systems with delay (2) and (3). We work over two cases: and .

Case 1 (). From (3) and Theorem 17, we have

That is,

From that, we can see that the problem of system observability can be addressed when and are identically zero. Thus, we can assume, with no loss of generality, that , and study the observability of systems (6) and

Then, we have

From Lemma 8, we have

Let ; then

that is,

Taking it into (50), we have

Let

Then,

So, we have

That is,

Let

Then,

From that, we have the main result of this paper as follows.

Theorem 19. Singular differential system with delay (6) and (49) is observable in if the observability matrix

has for all . Where

where is the first class of foundation solution of singular differential system with delay and is the second class of foundation solution of singular differential system with delay.

Proof . If the observability matrix

has rank for all , then exists, and from (60), we can take

the singular differential system with delay (6) and (49) is observable in .

Theorem 20. If there exist , and such that when , the observability matrix , , then singular differential system with delay (6) and (49) is unobservable.

Proof. For (), there exists , , such that .

Let satisfy (60) for any , and

Obviously, for , , and

That is for any , we can have more than one in (60), so singular differential system with delay (6) and (49) is unobservable.

Case 2 (). From (3) and Theorem 17, we have

That is,

From (68), we can easily find that when , we cannot get any information about . That is, the state initial function in cannot be uniquely determined from the knowledge of the control and observation over , singular differential control systems with delay (2) and (3) are not observable on .

4. Conclusion

In this paper, we study linear singular differential systems with delay in the state equations. We give a general description of the solutions and as the use of such result, we derive a necessary and sufficient condition for exact observability in finite time.

In [7], the problem, finding general solutions of singular systems with delay, was presented for the first time. But the result and the approach of our paper are brand-new, which may have significant advantages in comparison with the results of [7]. For example, it can be easily used to study the observability of singular control systems with delay.

For the observability of singular control systems with delay, we study it in two cases. When , we give a necessary and sufficient condition. When , we point out that singular differential control systems with delay (2) and (3) are not observable. These will be very useful in the study of singular control systems with delay, and that could also be regarded as the example of the use of the general description of the solutions of singular differential systems with delay.

Acknowledgments

This research has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 11371027 and no. 11071001), Doctoral Fund of the Ministry of Education of China (no. 20093401110001), and the Major Program of Educational Commission of Anhui Province of China (no. KJ2010ZD02).

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