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This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the design of optimal structured and sparse $H_\infty$ controllers for continuous-time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. Three problems are considered. First, designing the sparsest…
Consider that a linear time-invariant (LTI) plant is given and that we wish to design a stabilizing controller for it. Admissible controllers are LTI and must comply with a pre-selected sparsity pattern. The sparsity pattern is assumed to…
This study addresses the centralized synthesis of distributed controllers using linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Sparsity constraints on control gains of distributed controllers result in conservatism via the convexification of the…
In this article, we study the linear time-invariant state-feedback controller design problem for distributed systems. We follow the recently developed system level synthesis (SLS) approach and impose locality structure on the resulting…
We show that designing sparse $H_\infty$ controllers, in a discrete (LTI) setting, is easy when the controller is assumed to be an FIR filter. In this case, the problem reduces to a static output feedback problem with equality constraints.…
In this paper, we propose a sparsity-promoting feedback control design for stochastic linear systems with multiplicative noise. The objective is to identify a sparse control architecture that optimizes the closed-loop performance while…
In this work, we focus on the design of optimal controllers that must comply with an information structure. State-of-the-art approaches do so based on the H2 or Hinfty norm to minimize the expected or worst-case cost in the presence of…
We consider the problem of designing a stabilizing and optimal static controller with a pre-specified sparsity pattern. Since this problem is NP-hard in general, it is necessary to resort to approximation approaches. In this paper, we…
In this work, we propose a robust approach to design distributed controllers for unknown-but-sparse linear and time-invariant systems. By leveraging modern techniques in distributed controller synthesis and structured linear inverse…
We study the distributed Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control problem in discrete-time and finite-horizon, where the controller depends linearly on the history of the outputs and it is required to lie in a given subspace, e.g. to possess…
Optimal decentralized controller design is notoriously difficult, but recent research has identified large subclasses of such problems that may be convexified and thus are amenable to solution via efficient numerical methods. One recently…
We design resilient sparse state-feedback controllers for a linear time-invariant (LTI) control system while attaining a pre-specified guarantee on ${\mathcal{H}}_\infty$ performance measure. We leverage a technique from non-fragile control…
This study addresses a distributed state feedback controller design problem for continuous-time linear time-invariant systems by means of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). As structural constraints on a control gain result in non-convexity…
This paper provides a novel approach for finding sparse state-space realizations of linear systems (e.g., controllers). Sparse controllers are commonly used in distributed control, where a controller is synthesized with some sparsity…
For networks of systems, with possibly improper transfer function matrices, we present a design framework which enables $\mathcal{H}_\infty$ control, while imposing sparsity constraints on the controller's coprime factors. We propose a…
Quadratic invariance is a condition which has been shown to allow for optimal decentralized control problems to be cast as convex optimization problems. The condition relates the constraints that the decentralization imposes on the…
We consider the problem of computing optimal linear control policies for linear systems in finite-horizon. The states and the inputs are required to remain inside pre-specified safety sets at all times despite unknown disturbances. In this…
We consider a class of $\ell_0$-regularized linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems. This class of problems is obtained by augmenting a penalizing sparsity measure to the cost objective of the standard linear-quadratic regulator…
We consider the optimal distributed controller design problem subject to two structural requirements: locality, i.e. available measurements and sub-controllers' interactions are governed by a graph structure, and relative feedback, i.e.…
We address the problem of sparsity-promoting optimal control of cyber-physical systems with feedback delays. The delays are categorized into two classes - namely, intra-layer delay, and inter-layer delay between the cyber and the physical…