Optimization of Invariant Ellipsoid Technique for Sparse Controllers Design

Abstract

The paper deals with the method for the design of linear controllers with sparse state feedback matrices for control the plants under conditions of unknown and bounded disturbances. The importance of the sparsity property in feedback can be explained by two factors. First, by minimizing the columnar norm of the feedback matrix in the control it becomes pos- sible to use a minimum number of measuring devices. Secondly, by minimizing the row norm of the feedback matrix, the required number of executive (control) devices is minimized. Both properties, if they are achievable in the synthesis of the controller, reduce the cost of the system and improve the fault tolerance and quality of regulation by reducing the structural complexity. The search algorithm for sparse matrices is based on the method of invariant ellipsoids and is formulated as a solution to a system of linear matrix inequalities with additional constraints. A special set of optimization conditions is proposed which for a disturbed system minimizes overshoot and overshoots in transient processes of the disturbed closed- loop system simultaneously with minimizing errors in the steady state. The proposed method also assumes the possibility of minimizing both the row norm of the feedback matrix and the column one, while preserving the robustness properties, which makes it possible to solve the sparse control problem (a sparse control is understood as a linear controller with a sparse feedback matrix). The efficiency of the proposed control scheme is confirmed by the results of computer modeling and comparison with some existing ones.