Fundamental Results on Determining Matrices for a Certain Class of Hereditary Systems

Abstract

Three major tools are required to investigate the controllability of control systems, namely, determining matrices, index of control systems and controllability Grammian. Determining matrices are the preferred choice for autonomous control systems due to the fact that they are devoid of integral operators in their computations. This article developed the structure of certain parameter-ordered determining matrices of generic double time-delay linear autonomous functional differential control systems, with a view to obtaining the controllability matrix associated with the rank condition for Euclidean controllability of the system. Expressions for the relevant determining matrices were formulated and it was established that the determining matrices for double time-delay linear autonomous functional differential control systems do not exist if one of the time-delays is not an integer multiple of the other paving the way for the investigation of the Euclidean controllability of generic double time-delay control systems.