English

Convex Parameterization of Stabilizing Controllers and its LMI-based Computation via Filtering

Optimization and Control 2022-04-01 v1 Systems and Control Systems and Control Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Various new implicit parameterizations for stabilizing controllers that allow one to impose structural constraints on the controller have been proposed lately. They are convex but infinite-dimensional, formulated in the frequency domain with no available efficient methods for computation. In this paper, we introduce a kernel version of the Youla parameterization to characterize the set of stabilizing controllers. It features a single affine constraint, which allows us to recast the controller parameterization as a novel robust filtering problem. This makes it possible to derive the first efficient Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) implicit parametrization of stabilizing controllers. Our LMI characterization not only admits efficient numerical computation, but also guarantees a full-order stabilizing dynamical controller that is efficient for practical deployment. Numerical experiments demonstrate that our LMI can be orders of magnitude faster to solve than the existing closed-loop parameterizations.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2203.17145,
  title  = {Convex Parameterization of Stabilizing Controllers and its LMI-based Computation via Filtering},
  author = {Mauricio C. de Oliveira and Yang Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.17145},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

11 pages, 5 figures, and two tables; code available at https://github.com/soc-ucsd/iop_lmi

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