Disturbance attenuation for discrete-time feedforward nonlinear systems (Q4699423)

The authors consider the problem of inverse optimality for a class of discrete time systems which are nonlinear and non-affine in the control. In a first part they show that the feedback laws proposed by \textit{F. Mazenc} and \textit{L. Praly} [IEEE Trans. Autom. Control 41, No. 11, 1559--1578 (1996; Zbl 0865.93049)] and \textit{F. Mazenc} and \textit{H. Nijmeijer} [Int. J. Control 71, No. 5, 823--835 (1998; Zbl 0952.93111)] are indeed inversely optimal, i.e., the existence of suitable cost functionals is shown which are minimized by the given feedback laws. This result applies to both stabilization and disturbance attenuation. In a second part these results are applied to the (more restricted) class of feedforward system yielding an existence result for inverse optimal feedback laws for the disturbance attenuation problem. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0922.00034].