SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.40, No.4, 1042-1071, 2001
Nonlinear tracking over compact sets with linear dynamically varying H(infinity) control
Linear dynamically varying H(infinity) controllers are developed for tracking natural trajectories of a broad class of nonlinear systems defined over compact sets. It is shown that the existence of a suboptimal H(infinity) controller is related to the existence of a bounded solution to a functional algebraic Riccati equation. Even though nonlinear systems running over compact sets could exhibit sensitive dependence on initial conditions, the Riccati solution is continuous in the suboptimal case, but it may be discontinuous in the optimal case.
Keywords:nonlinear systems;trajectory tracking;linear parametrically and dynamically varying systems;state space H(infinity) robust control;functional algebraic Riccati equation