Automatica, Vol.37, No.3, 461-468, 2001
An LMI condition for robust stability of polynomial matrix polytopes
A sufficient LMI condition is proposed for checking robust stability of a polytope of polynomial matrices. It hinges upon two recent results: a new approach to polynomial matrix stability analysis and a new robust stability condition for convex polytopic uncertainty. Numerical experiments illustrate that the condition narrows significantly the unavoidable gap between conservative tractable quadratic stability results and exact NP-hard robust stability results.
Keywords:polynomial methods;uncertain polynomials;robust stability;quadratic stability;convex programming