ABSTRACT

Abasic problem in control theory is how to use feedback in order tomodify the original internal dynamics of a controlled plant so as to achieve some prescribed behavior. In particular, feedbackmay be used for the purpose of imposing, on the associated closed-loop system, the (unforced) behavior of some prescribed autonomous linear system. When the plant is modeled as a linear time-invariant system, this is known as the problem of pole placement, while, in the more general case of a nonlinear model, this is known as the problem of feedback linearization (see [1-4]).