Necessary and sufficient conditions for assignability of dichotomy spectra of continuous time-varying linear systems

We consider a version of the pole placement problem for continuous time-varying linear systems. Our purpose is to prove that uniform complete controllability is equivalent to possibility of arbitrary assignment of the dichotomy spectrum. The main ingredients of the proof are the reduction of system to upper triangular form and the use of the concept of uniform complete stabilization. To illustrate the theoretical result, we consider scalar continuous time-varying control systems. For these systems we provide a simple necessary and sufficient condition for uniform complete controllability and if this condition holds, then we construct an explicit control to assign the dichotomy spectrum. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.