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Finite and infinite horizon H
control for stochastic nonlinear systems

1Systems Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
2Mechanical Engineering Department, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Center-ville, P.O. Box 6079, station, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3A7
In this paper, the problem of disturbance attenuation with internal stability for nonlinear systems with Markovian jumping parameters is considered. It is shown that this problem is solvable if there exists a sequence of smooth-positive semidefinite functions satisfying certain Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaac equations (inequalities). Furthermore, it is shown that, if this solution exists, it represents a stochastic Lyapunov function for the closed-loop nonlinear system. A parametrization of the family of full-information state-feedback controllers satisfying the disturbance-attenuation requirement with stochastic stability for the closed-loop system is also given.
Keywords: nonlinear system; Markov jump process; dissipative system; disturbance attenuation; stochastic stability.
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