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Characterization of the solution to a constrained H-infinity optimal control problem

Mayne D. Q. and Rakovic S. V. and Vinter R. B. and Kerrigan E. C.

Automatica, Volume 42, Number 3, Pages 371-382, March 2006

Abstract

This paper obtains an explicit solution to a finite horizon min-max optimal control problem where the system is linear and discrete-time with control and state constraints, and the cost quadratic; the disturbance is negatively costed, as in the standard H-infinity problem, and is constrained. The cost is minimized over control policies and maximized over disturbance sequences so that the solution yields a feedback control. It is shown that, under certain conditions, the value function is piecewise quadratic and the optimal control policy piecewise affine, being quadratic and affine, respectively, in polyhedra that partition the domain of the value function.

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@Article{mayne:rakovic:vinter:kerrigan:2006,
author = {Mayne D. Q. and Rakovic S. V. and Vinter R. B. and Kerrigan E. C.},
journal = {Automatica},
title = {Characterization of the solution to a constrained H-infinity optimal control problem},
year = {2006},
bibkey = {mayne:rakovic:vinter:kerrigan:2006},
month = {March},
number = {3},
pages = {371-382},
volume = {42}
}