IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.40, No.3, 512-516, 1995
All Fixed-Order H-Infinity Controllers - Observer-Based Structure and Covariance Bounds
This note obtains a parameterization of the set of all stabilizing controllers of order less than or equal to the plant, which yields for the closed-loop transfer matrix a specified Hr norm hound. The algebraic results of covariance control are applied to the H-infinity control problem to yield a parameterization in terms of the Lyapunov matrix, which carries many system properties (such as H-2 performance, covariance bounds, system entropy at infinity etc.). All low-order H-infinity controllers are shown to have observer-based structure for "reduced-order models" of the plant and are characterized by two Riccati equations with a coupling condition.