Characterization of the solution to a constrained H∞ optimal control problem

  • Authors:

  • D. Q. Mayne;S. V. Raković;R. B. Vinter;E. C. Kerrigan

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, UK

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2006

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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"~ 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.