A bundle method for solving the fixed order control problem

Authors:
  • MRM. Rotunno
    M. Rotunno
  • RCR.A. de Callafon
    R.A. de Callafon

Abstract
Recently bundle methods have been proposed for solv- ing Semi-Definite Programming (SDP) problems which consist of minimizing a linear objective subject to Lin- ear Matrix Inequality (LMI) constraints. These meth- ods are appealing especially for large scale problems. Many control problems can be cast as SDPs. In con- trast fixed order control problems in the LMI frame- work require an additional rank constraint on the LMIs which makes the problem insolvable with traditional SDP methods. One way of imposing the rank con- straint is to formulate the fixed order control problem in terms of the eigenvalues of the LMIs. This makes the problem nondifferentiable, but amenable to bundle methods.

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