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Adding LTI models is equivalent to connecting them in parallel. Specifically, the LTI model
represents the parallel interconnection shown below.

If sys1 and sys2 are two state-space models with data
and
, the state-space data associated with sys1 + sys2 is
Scalar addition is also supported and behaves as follows: if sys1 is MIMO and sys2 is SISO, sys1 + sys2 produces a system with the same dimensions as sys1 whose ijth entry is sys1(i,j) + sys2.
Similarly, the subtraction of two LTI models
is depicted by the following block diagram.

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