NEW NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS FOR LOCAL CONTROLLABILITY AND LOCAL OBSERVABILITY OF 2-D SEPARABLE DENOMINATOR SYSTEMS.

New necessary and sufficient conditions for local controllability and observability of a two-dimensional (2D) separable denominator system (SDS) are presented on the basis of the reduced-dimensional decomposition of a 2-D SDS. It is proved that local controllability of a 2-D SDS is equivalent to controllability of two 1-D systems which are a special decomposition pair of the 2-D SDS. Furthermore, local observability of a 2-D SDS is equivalent to a full rank condition of the coefficient matrices of the 2-D SDS in addition to observability of two 1-D systems which are another special decomposition pair of the 2-D SDS. Thus, these new conditions which use only 1-D controllability matrices, 1-D observability matrices, and coefficient matrices of the 2-D SDS are much simpler than any previous conditions which use complex 2-D controllability and observability matrices.