IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.50, No.11, 1698-1711, 2005
The sector bound approach to quantized feedback control
This paper studies a number of quantized feedback design problems for linear systems. We consider the case where quantizers are static (memoryless). The common aim of these design problems is to stabilize the given system or to achieve certain performance with the coarsest quantization density. Our main discovery is that the classical sector bound approach is nonconservative for studying these design problems. Consequently, we are able to convert many quantized feedback design problems to well-known robust control problems with sector bound uncertainties. In particular, we derive the coarsest quantization densities for stabilization for multiple-input-multiple-output systems in both state feedback and output feedback cases; and we also derive conditions for quantized feedback control for quadratic cost and H-infinity performances.
Keywords:H-infinity control;linear quadratic control;quadratic stabilization;quantized feedback;sector bound approach