Identification for control of multivariable systems: Controller validation and experiment design via LMIs

  • Authors:
  • MäRta Barenthin;Xavier Bombois;HåKan Hjalmarsson;GéRard Scorletti

  • Affiliations:
  • Automatic Control, School of Electrical Engineering, KTH, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden;Delft Center for Systems and Control, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands;Automatic Control, School of Electrical Engineering, KTH, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden;Laboratoire Ampère Ecole Centrale de Lyon, 36 avenue Guy de Collongue - 69134 Ecully Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents a new controller validation method for linear multivariable time-invariant models. Classical prediction error system identification methods deliver uncertainty regions which are nonstandard in the robust control literature. Our controller validation criterion computes an upper bound for the worst case performance, measured in terms of the H"~-norm of a weighted closed loop transfer matrix, achieved by a given controller over all plants in such uncertainty sets. This upper bound on the worst case performance is computed via an LMI-based optimization problem and is deduced via the separation of graph framework. Our main technical contribution is to derive, within that framework, a very general parametrization for the set of multipliers corresponding to the nonstandard uncertainty regions resulting from PE identification of MIMO systems. The proposed approach also allows for iterative experiment design. The results of this paper are asymptotic in the data length and it is assumed that the model structure is flexible enough to capture the true system.