Application of Newton's Method with Analytical Computation of Jacobian Matrix to Solve Multi-linear Pole Assignment Equations

Abstract

Abstract Output feedback pole placement problem is not solvable analytically for the plants having either number of inputs or number of outputs, more than two. There is even lack of a good numerical method which solves any general pole assignment problem. Due to the multi-linear nature of the pole placement problem there is a possibility to utilize multi-linear structure and arrive at a better numerical solution. This paper shows that it is possible to compute analytically the Jacobian and Hessian matrix in an easy manner and utilize them in an iterative numerical method to solve the pole-placement problem. Newton-Raphson method is used with analytical solution of Jacobian matrix to give an iterative solution of pole placement equations with better percentage success rate than the other methods quoted in literature.