Chain-scattering approach to \(H^ \infty\) control (Q2565156)

The purpose of this book is to provide a natural, simple and comprehensive exposition of \(H^\infty\) control theory which is accessible to practical engineers; it is understandable with little mathematical background. The reader is not required to have a background of linear system theory beyond the very elementary level which is actually supplied in this book in Chapters 2 and 3, where some basic preliminaries of linear system theory and associated mathematical results are briefly reviewed. All the technical complications are due to the augmentation of the plant when forming the chain-scattering representation. The notion of chain-scattering, well-known in classical circuit theory, but new to control theorists, plays a fundamental role in this book. Chapter 4 is devoted to the introduction of chain-scattering representations of the plant. Various properties of the chain-scattering representations are discussed. The J-lossless matrix is introduced in this chapter as a chain-scattering representation of lossless systems. The notion of J-lossless conjugation is introduced in Chapter 5 with emphasis on its relation to classical interpolation problems. Chapter 6 deals with J-lossless factorization based on J-lossless conjugation. The well-known Riccati equations are introduced characterizing the existence of J-lossless factorization. The \(H^\infty\) control problem is formulated in Chapter 7 in the frequency domain. The problem is reduced to the J-lossless factorization of the chain-scattering representation of the plant. The state-space solution to the \(H^\infty\) control problem is obtained in Chapter 8. Chapter 9 discusses the closed-loop structure of \(H^\infty\) control systems. The book is useful to practicing engineers in control system design and as a textbook for a graduate course in \(H^\infty\) control and its applications.