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SLICOT—A Subroutine Library in Systems and Control Theory

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Applied and Computational Control, Signals, and Circuits

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This chapter describes the subroutine library SLICOT that provides Fortran 77 implementations of numerical algorithms for computations in systems and control theory. Around a nucleus of basic numerical linear algebra subroutines, this library builds methods for the design and analysis of linear control systems. A brief history of the library is given together with a description of the current version of the library and the ongoing activities to complete and improve the library in several aspects.

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Benner, P., Mehrmann, V., Sima, V., Van Huffel, S., Varga, A. (1999). SLICOT—A Subroutine Library in Systems and Control Theory. In: Datta, B.N. (eds) Applied and Computational Control, Signals, and Circuits. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0571-5_10

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