Stable controller synthesis for linear time-invariant systems

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The problem of designing a stabilizing controller which is itself stable, in addition to ensuring closed-loop stability and performance, can be challenging. In this paper, this problem is addressed in the state-space setting for mixed \(H_2/H_\infty\) control (a particular case of multi-objective control). The authors reduce the full-order stable controller synthesis problem into another multi-objective state-feedback controller synthesis problem for two different state models. Unsurprisingly, the obtained synthesis conditions are a mix of quadratic algebraic Riccati equations and generally non-convex bilinear matrix inequalities (BMI). In order to cope with the non-convexity of the matrix inequalities, an iterative scheme is proposed which consists in freezing one set of variables while varying over the others, constrained by convex linear matrix inequalities (LMI). This paper can thus be inserted as one more item into the already very long list of similar contributions, where a potentially difficult control problem is formulated as a non-convex BMI problem, and non-convexity of the BMI problem is deceptively addressed via a heuristic with no guarantee of global convergence, or even local convergence to an optimum satisfying the first-order optimality condition.





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