IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.39, No.2, 447-448, 1994
On a Property of Compensators Designed by the Separation Principle - Comment
The technical note1 gave a proof that, in a control system designed with a full-state observer and state feedback control, the compensator transfer function is the same no matter how the closed-loop poles are distributed between the observer and the controller. This note points out that a technique is known for computing the observer and controller feedback gains corresponding to all possible distributions of closed-loop poles between the observer and the controller. It further points out that the way the closed-loop poles are distributed can make an important difference to the closed-loop system behavior.