Convex Design Control for Practical Nonlinear Systems

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This paper describes a new control scheme for approximately optimal control (AOC) of nonlinear systems, convex control design (ConvCD). The key idea of ConvCD is to transform the approximate optimal control problem into a convex semi-definite programming (SDP) problem. Contrary to the majority of existing AOC designs where the problem that is addressed is to provide a control design which approximates the performance of the optimal controller by increasing the 'controller complexity,' the pro...

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Authors: Baldi, S; Michailidis, I; Kosmatopoulos, E; Papachristodoulou, A; Ioannou, P

• Publication status: Published
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Journal: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 1692-1705
• Publication date: 2014-07-01
• DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2014.2309271
• EISSN: 1558-2523
• ISSN: 0018-9286
• Language: English
• Keywords: Approximately optimal control (AOC); control Lyapunov function (CLF); convex control design (ConvCD); semi-definite programming (SDP)