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Optimal controllers which ‘work’ in presence of plant & controller uncertainty

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Learning, control and hybrid systems

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences ((LNCIS,volume 241))

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It is shown that the design procedure proposed to solve the “perfect robust servomechanism” problem [1] has the property that it results in acceptable perturbation bounds with respect to both plant and controller uncertainty.

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  1. Systems Control Group, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, M5S 3G4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Edward J. Davison

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Yutaka Yamamoto PhD Shinji Hara PhD

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Davison, E.J. (1999). Optimal controllers which ‘work’ in presence of plant & controller uncertainty. In: Yamamoto, Y., Hara, S. (eds) Learning, control and hybrid systems. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 241. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0109741

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