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Optimization-Based Control Design Techniques and Tools

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Structured output feedback controller synthesis is an exciting recent concept in modern control design, which bridges between theory and practice in so far as it allows for the first time to apply sophisticated mathematical design paradigms like H∞- or H2-control within control architectures preferred by practitioners. The new approach to structured H∞-control, developed by the authors during the past decade, is rooted in a change of paradigm in the synthesis algorithms. Structured design is no longer based on solving algebraic Riccati equations or matrix inequalities. Instead, optimization-based design techniques are required. In this essay we indicate why structured controller synthesis is central in modern control engineering. We explain why non-smooth optimization techniques are needed to compute structured control laws, and we point to software tools which enable practitioners to use these new tools in high-technology applications.

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  1. Control Department, DCSD, ONERA – The French Aerospace Lab, Toulouse, France

    Pierre Apkarian

  2. Institut de Mathématiques, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Dominikus Noll

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Apkarian, P., Noll, D. (2019). Optimization-Based Control Design Techniques and Tools. In: Baillieul, J., Samad, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5102-9_144-2

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    Optimization-Based Control Design Techniques and Tools
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5102-9_144-2

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