| Abstract: | Several algorithms for adaptive control, as well as for static state feedback decoupling, feedback linearization, or inversion of nonlinear multivariable systems require that the systems have full vector relative degree, in order to be applied. In this paper, we provide a parameter-independent method of achieving full vector relative degree for nonlinear multivariable systems which do not have it. We determine conditions under which a diagonal dynamic precompensation is sufficient to achieve vector relative degree for multivariable nonlinear systems, and describe a simple algorithm which determines such compensation. |
