This text is the first comprehensive treatment of structural
decompositions of various types of linear systems, including autonomous,
unforced or unsensed, strictly proper, non-strictly proper, and
descriptor or singular systems. Structural properties play an important
role in the understanding of linear systems, and also provide insight to
the solution of many control problems related to stabilization,
disturbance decoupling, robust and optimal control with applications to
industrial process control, aircraft and ship control, process
automation control, and many other types of engineering systems.
Exercises, examples, cases studies, and MATLAB-based computational and
design algorithms make the work suitable as a textbook for undergraduate
and graduate students in aeronautics and astronautics, applied
mathematics, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering. It may
also serve as a valuable self-study reference for researchers and
engineering practitioners in areas related to systems and control
theory.