Robustness of nonlinear state feedback. A survey (Q1096572)

A survey of robustness of nonlinear state feedback is given. For series perturbations there are fairly complete results, showing that under mild restrictions an optimal controller can tolerate an infinite increase in gain. For gain reductions there are some results for systems linear in the control. In particular there is a 50\% reduction tolerance of the control penalty is quadratic. Usually the optimal controller cannot be computed exactly. There are some results showing the effects of truncation on the robustness. Essentially robustness is maintained but in a reduced (computable) part of the state space.