SCO colloquium: Paul Wijnbergen

Abstract: In this presentation we consider system classes of switched differential algebraic equations (DAEs). A system class is said to be impulse controllable if every system contained in the class is impulse controllable. In the case that we consider a system class generated by the matrix triplets (E_p, A_p, B_p) and a piecewise continuous switching signal, impulse controllability is not difficult to characterize. However, if we consider a system class generated by some matrix triplets and switching signals that induce the same order modes, the problem of characterizing impulse controllability becomes more complex.