Feedback Control for Multidimensional Linear Systems and Interpolation Problems for Multivariable Holomorphic Functions

This article provides the connection between feedback stabilization and interpolation conditions for n-D linear systems (n > 1). In addition to internal stability, if one demands performance as a design goal, then there results an n-D matrix Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation problem. Application of recent work on Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation on the polydisk yields a solution of the problem for the 2-D case. The same analysis applies in the n-D case (n > 2), but leads to solutions which are contractive in a norm (the "Schur-Agler norm") somewhat stronger than the $H^{\infty}$ norm. This is an analogous version of the connection between the standard $H^{\infty}$ control problem and an interpolation problem of Nevanlinna-Pick type in the classical 1-D linear time-invariant systems.