%0 Journal Article %T Checking of the positivity of descriptor linear systems with singular pencils %A Tadeusz Kaczorek %J Archives of Control Sciences %D 2012 %I %R 10.2478/v10170-011-0013-3 %X A method for checking of the positivity of descriptor continuous-time and discrete-time linear systems with singular pencil is proposed. The method is based on elementary row and column operations on the matrices of descriptor systems. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the positivity of the descriptor systems are established. %K checking %K positivity %K descriptor %K linear %K system %K singular pencil %U http://versita.metapress.com/content/q9v1452v2833365l/?p=db9b54896b634a6e88f732d85037e7fb&pi=5