Title/Authors

Parameter dependent H infinity control by finite dimensional LMI optimization: application to trade-off dependent control
M. Dinh, G. Scorletti, V. Fromion and E. Magarotto

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the design of an H infinity trade-off dependent controller, that is, a controller such that, for a given
Linear Time-Invariant plant, a set of performance trade-offs parameterized by a scalar theta is satisfied. The controller
state space matrices are explicit functions of theta. This new problem is a special case of the design of a parameter
dependent controller for a parameter dependent plant, which has many application in Automatic Control.

This last design problem can be naturally formulated as a convex but infinite dimensional optimization problem
involving parameter dependent Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) constraints. In this paper, we propose finite
dimensional (parameter independent) LMI constraints which are equivalent to the parameter dependent
LMI constraints. The parameter dependent controller design is then formulated as a convex finite dimensional
LMI optimization problem. The obtained result is then applied to the trade-off dependent controller
design. A numerical example emphasizes the strong interest of our finite dimensional optimization problem
with respect to the trade-off dependent control application.

Status

Accepted to  IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, July 2005. Accepted to IJNRC, 2005.

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Bibtex reference  

@ARTICLE{DSFM:05,
AUTHOR    =       "M.~Dinh and G.~Scorletti and V.~Fromion and E.~Magarotto",
TITLE         =       "Parameter dependent {${H}_\infty$} control by finite dimensional {LMI}  optimization:                                        application  to trade-off dependent control",
JOURNAL   =      "Int.\ J.\ Robust and Nonlinear Control",
YEAR          =      "2005",
volume         =       "15",
pages           =        "383-406"}