Solution to Morgan's problem

Abstract

A necessary and sufficient condition is presented for the solution of the row-by-row decoupling problem (known as Morgan's problem) in the general case, that is, without any restrictive assumption added to the system to the feedback law u=Fx+Gy (G may be noninvertible). This is a structural condition in terms of invariant lists of integers which are easily computable from a given state realization of the system. These integers are the infinite zero orders (Morse's list I/sub 4/) and the essential orders of the system, which only depend on the input-output behavior, and Morse's list I/sub 2/ of the system, which depends on the choice of a particular state realization.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>