Suboptimality and stability of linear distributed-parameter systems with finite-dimensional controllers (Q794980)

In order to implement feedback control for practical distributed- parameter systems (DPS), the resulting controllers must be finite- dimensional. The most natural approach to obtain such controllers is to make a finite-dimensional approximation, i.e., a reduced-order model, of the DPS and design the controller from this. In past work using perturbation theory, we have analyzed the stability of controllers synthesized this way, but used in the actual DPS; however, such techniques do not yield suboptimal performance results easily. In this paper we present a modification of the above controller which allows us to more properly imbed the controller as part of the DPS. Using these modified controllers, we are able to show a bound on the suboptimality for an optimal quadratic DPS regulator implemented with a finite- dimensional control, as well as stability bounds.