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Combining Convex-Concave Decompositions and Linearization Approaches for solving BMIs, with application to Static Output Feedback

Optimization and Control 2011-09-19 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

A novel optimization method is proposed to minimize a convex function subject to bilinear matrix inequality (BMI) constraints. The key idea is to decompose the bilinear mapping as a difference between two positive semidefinite convex mappings. At each iteration of the algorithm the concave part is linearized, leading to a convex subproblem.Applications to various output feedback controller synthesis problems are presented. In these applications the subproblem in each iteration step can be turned into a convex optimization problem with linear matrix inequality (LMI) constraints. The performance of the algorithm has been benchmarked on the data from COMPleib library.

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@article{arxiv.1109.3320,
  title  = {Combining Convex-Concave Decompositions and Linearization Approaches for solving BMIs, with application to Static Output Feedback},
  author = {Quoc Tran Dinh and Suat Gumussoy and Wim Michiels and Moritz Diehl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.3320},
  year   = {2011}
}

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22 pages

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