L. Farina et L. Benvenuti, POLYHEDRAL REACHABLE SET WITH POSITIVE CONTROLS, MCSS. Mathematics of control, signals and systems, 10(4), 1997, pp. 364-380
Given a reachable discrete-time linear system (A, b), the reachable se
t is a cone when a positive constraint is imposed on the input. The pr
oblem to be studied is the geometrical structure of the reachable set
R = cone(b, Ab, A(2)b,...) in terms of the spectrum of A. Zn particula
r, conditions which ensure R, or its closure (R) over bar, is a polyhe
dral proper cone are derived. The impact of the given results on finit
e-time reachability and positive realizability is also discussed.