A complete and simple parametrization of controllers for a nonstandard \(H_\infty\) control problem (Q1129636)

The authors deal with a nonstandard \(\mathcal H_\infty\) control problem \[ \begin{aligned} \dot x&=Ax+B_1w+B_2u,\\ z&=C_1x+D_{12}u,\\ y&=C_2x+D_{21}w, \end{aligned} \] where \(x\in\mathbb R^n\) is the state variable, \(w\in \mathbb R^r\) the external input, \(u \in\mathbb R^p\) the control input, \(z \in \mathbb R^m\) the controlled output, and \(y\in \mathbb R^q\) the measurement output, with \(p\geq m,\) \(q\geq r,\) under the conditions that the direct feed-through matrices \(D_{12}\) and \(D_{21}\) are of full row rank and full column rank, respectively. The purpose of the paper is to find conditions under which a solution exists and to give a simple parametrization of all \(\mathcal H_\infty\) controllers which solve the problem, using the Youla parametrization and standard \(\mathcal H_\infty\) control theory.