IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.47, No.4, 632-636, 2002
Robust control under parametric uncertainty via primal-dual convex analysis
A numerical method is proposed for optimal robust control synthesis. The method applies to the case when the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial depend linearly on the uncertain parameters. A primal/dual pair of infinite-dimensional convex problems is solved by successive finite-dimensional approximations. The primal/dual pair has no duality gap, and both upper and lower bounds produced by the approximations converge monotonically to the optimal value.
Keywords:convex optimization;duality;finite-approximation;parametric uncertainty;robust stabilization