Structural Analysis for the Design of Reliable Controllers and State Estimators for Uncertain Dynamical Systems

The task of designing feedforward control strategies for finite-dimensional systems in such a way that the output variables match predefined trajectories can be formulated in terms of an initial value problem (IVP) for a set of differential-algebraic equations (DAEs). The same holds for the reconstruction of internal variables and parameters on the basis of measured data. In this contribution, we discuss criteria for the solvability of both DAE problems and their relations to controllability and observability of dynamical systems. The practical applicability of this type of problem formulation is demonstrated by numerical results.