Robust stabilization of singularly perturbed systems (Q1058501)

The objectives of this note are threefold: (i) show that, given any proper system and any stabilizing controller for it that is proper but not strictly proper, there exists a singular perturbation of the system that is destabilized by that controller, (ii) to show that any strictly proper controller for a singularly perturbed system designed on the basis of a reduced order model will stabilize the true system for sufficiently small values of the fast dynamics parameter, and (iii) to provide a characterization of the set of strictly proper controllers that stabilize a given proper plant. By combining these results, it is possible to generate the class of all robustly stabilizing controllers for a given singularly perturbed system.