Negative imaginary (NI) systems theory was introduced by Lanzon and Petersen in.[1][2] A generalization of the theory was presented in [3]
In the single-input single-output (SISO) case, such systems are defined by considering the properties of the imaginary part of the frequency response G(jω) and require the system to have no poles in the right half plane and
> 0 for all ω in (0, ∞). This means that a system is Negative imaginary if it is both stable and a nyquist plot will have a phase lag between [-π 0] for all ω > 0.
Negative Imaginary Definition
Source:[3]
A square transfer function matrix
is NI if the following conditions are satisfied:
has no pole in
.
- For all
such that
is not a pole of
and
.
- If
is a pole of
, then it is a simple pole and furthermore, the residual matrix
is Hermitian and positive semidefinite.
- If
is a pole of
, then
for all
and
is Hermitian and positive semidefinite.
These conditions can be summarized as:
- The system
is stable.
- For all positive frequencies, the nyquist diagram of the system response is between [-π 0].
Negative Imaginary Lemma
Source:[3]
Let
be a minimal realization of the transfer function matrix
. Then,
is NI if and only if
and there exists a matrix
such that the following LMI is satisfied:
This result comes from positive real theory after converting the negative imaginary system to a positive real system for analysis.
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