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A robust controller for time-dependent discrete systems
1Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest
2Department of Control Engineering, University Politehnica Bucharest
1 Address for correspondence: Vlad Ionescu, 3 Emile Zola, 71272, Bucharest, Romania. Email: ionescu{at}indinf.pub.ro. Tel: (40-1) 633 63 78.
The problem of robust stabilization for a time-dependent discrete system is investigated. The robustness definition we use in the paper is that derived from an operator-based description of a system disturbed by stable operator factor perturbations in a normalized left coprime factorization of the nominal plant. Explicit formulae for a corresponding robust controller in terms of the nominal data and stabilizing solutions of two standard Riccati equations are obtained. An evaluation of the maximum stability margin is also given. The treatment of the subject is in the framework of the so-called generalized Popov-Yakubovich theory.
Keywords: robust stabilization; Riccati equation; Kalman-Szego-Popov-Yakubovich system; coprime factorization; Hankel and Toeplitz operators; disturbance-attenuation problem.