IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.56, No.6, 1462-1467, 2011
A Quasi-Newton Interior Point Method for Low Order H-Infinity Controller Synthesis
This technical note proposes a method for low order H-infinity synthesis where the constraint on the order of the controller is formulated as a rational equation. The resulting nonconvex optimization problem is then solved by applying a quasi-Newton primal-dual interior point method. The proposed method is evaluated together with a well-known method from the literature. The results indicate that the proposed method has comparable performance and speed.
Keywords:H-infinity synthesis;interior point methods;linear matrix inequalities (LMIs);quasi-Newton methods;rank constraints;rational constraints