The periodic matrix equations are strongly related to analysis of periodic
control systems for various engineering and mechanical problems. In this
work, a matrix form of the conjugate gradient for least squares (MCGLS)
method is constructed for obtaining the least squares solutions of the
general discrete-time periodic matrix equations ?t,j=1 (Ai,jXi,jBi,j +
Ci,jXi+1,jDi,j)=Mi, i=1,2,.... It is shown that the MCGLS method
converges smoothly in a finite number of steps in the absence of round-off
errors. Finally two numerical examples show that the MCGLS method is
efficient.