A modified \(D\)-\(K\) iteration approach for the decentralized \(\mathcal{H}_{\infty}\) control of civil structures with parametric uncertainties (Q1718072)

Summary: This paper presents a robust decentralized \(\mathcal{H}_{\infty}\) controller design method to suppress the vibration of civil structures with the consideration of parametric uncertainties. The decentralized \(\mathcal{H}_{\infty}\) controller design is motivated by the double homotopy approach, which approximates the bilinear matrix inequality (BMI) derived from bounded real lemma to linear matrix inequality (LMI), and gradually deforms a centralized controller to a decentralized controller. The centralized \(\mathcal{H}_{\infty}\) controller can be designed for the civil structures with the parametric uncertainties through \(D\)-\(K\) iteration method in \(\mu\) synthesis, which can consider the diagonal block pattern of the uncertain matrix. This paper combines the double homotopy approach and \(D\)-\(K\) iteration method to design the robust decentralized \(\mathcal{H}_{\infty}\) controller for the civil structures with parametric uncertainties. The proposed method is validated numerically with a four-story building example.