15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
ABOUT REDUCING CONSERVATISM IN ROBUST CONTROL DESIGN OF DISCRETE-TIME SYSTEMS: THE NON STATIONARY CASE
Jamal Daafouz* Olivier Bachelier** Jacques Bernussou**
* CRAN - ENSEM, 2 av. de la forêt de Haye, 54516 Vandœuvre
Cedex - France
** LAII-ESIP, Bât. de Mécanique, 40, av. du Recteur Pineau,
86022 Poitiers Cedex- France
*** LAAS-CNRS, 7 av. du colonel Roche, 31077 Toulouse
Cedex 4 - France

The paper addresses the problem of stabilizing discrete-time systems subject to time varying polytopic uncertainty. Non stationary quadratic Lyapunov functions are derived for synthesis in a Poly-Quadratic Lyapunov function concept which avoids in a large extent the conservatism linked with the classical single Lyapunov function quadratic approach. The state space feedback synthesis problem is addressed. The results are extended to cope with two particular problems: H infinity performance analysis and synthesis problem as well as state feedback design while maximizing the size of the uncertainty domain.
Keywords: Parameter Dependent Lyapunov Functions, Discrete Time Systems, Time Varying Uncertainty, H performance, Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI)
Session slot T-Tu-M15: Robust Control I/Area code 2e : Robust Control