15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
NONLINEAR H-INFINITY CONTROL: AN LMI APPROACH
D F Coutinho*,** A Trofino** M Fu***
* Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Av Ipiranga 6681, Porto
Alegre, RS, 90619-900, Brazil.
** Department of Automation and Systems, UFSC, Brazil.
*** Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
The University of Newcastle, Australia.
(daniel@ee.pucrs.br, eemf@ee.newcastle.edu.au, trofino@lcmi.ufsc.br)

In this paper, we consider the problem of robust H-infinity control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems. We derive LMI conditions for analyzing regional stability and performance based on Lyapunov functions which are polynomial functions of the state and uncertain parameters. More specifically, we provide an energy bound on the input disturbance which guarantees that the state of the system stays inside a given region. For the given bound on the input disturbance, we also minimize the L2-gain of the input-output operator. Through an iterative algorithm, the proposed technique is applied to control systems. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate our results.
Keywords: H-infinity control, convex-optimization, uncertainty, Lyapunov methods
Session slot T-Mo-M15: Optimal Robust Control/Area code 2e : Robust Control