15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
AN ITERATIVE CONTROLLER DESIGN SCHEME BASED ON AVERAGE ROBUST CONTROL
S. Bittanti* M.C. Campi** S. Garatti*
* Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione - Politecnico di Milano,
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy -
{bittanti,sgaratti}@elet.polimi.it
** Dipartimento di Elettronica per l’Automazione - University of
Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy - campi@ing.unibs.it

In recent years, a great deal of attention has been devoted to iterative control as an efficient methodology for the design of highly-performing controllers. In this paper, we propose a new iterative scheme which explicitly accounts for the presence of uncertainty. At each step, the designed controller is the best possible one relative to the existing level of uncertainty and uncertainty is reduced through steps. In this way, the achieved performance rapidly improves from one step to the next, while preserving the robust stability of the closed-loop system. The controller design is performed at a low computational effort thanks to the use of randomized algorithms.
Keywords: Iterative methods, robustness, closed-loop identification, Monte Carlo method,
randomized algorithms
Session slot T-Th-A03: Iterative Control Design/Area code 3b : Adaptive Control and Tuning