An explicit control energy function for optimal suppression in linear systems (Q1961210)

The author presents a method for solving the minimum energy problem for linear time-invariant systems described by second-order equations and endowed with a specifically chosen input energy weighting matrix. The main advantage of the approach claimed by the author is that the input vector and the minimal energy function are obtained directly in explicit form by superposition of optimal infinite-terminal-time model excitation functions and that it enables to construct a simple criterion for assessing the performance efficiencies of peak suppression strategies. Moreover, the author compares his methodology with classical LQ algorithms and claims that complexity, time-consumption and computation effort of his algorithm are much lower than those needed in the case when dynamic programming or maximum-principle techniques are used. The value of the proposed method is illustrated by a numerical example in which a rapid transporter and positioning system for manufactured components is considered. Nevertheless, comparing different techniques used to solve the minimum energy problem, the author seems to forget the explicit solution given by the controllability Grammian for the considered class of problems which leads to the explicit, very simple and quite general open loop minimal energy strategy.