Classical Control Using H-infinity Methods

Preface; Part I. Short Design Course: 1. A Method for Solving System Design Problems; Rational Functions; The Closed Loop System S; Designable Transfer Function; A System Design Problem; The Method; Exercises; 2. Internal Stability; Control and Stability; Interpolation; Systems With a Stable Plant; Exercises; 3. Frequency Domain Performance Requirements; Introduction; Measures of Performance; Piecing Together Disk Inequalities; More Performance Measures; A Fully Constrained Problem; 4. Optimization; Review of Concepts; Generating a Performance Function; Finding T With Best Performance; Acceptable Performance Functions; Performance Not of Circular Type; Optimization; Internal Stability and Optimization; Exercises; 5. A Design Example With OPTDesign; Introduction; The Problem; Optimization With OPTDesign; Producing a Rational Compensator; How Good is the Answer?; Optimality Diagnostics; Specifying Compensator Roll-off; Reducing the Numerical Error; Rational Fits; Exercises; Part II. More on Design: 6. Examples; Numerical Practicalities; Design Example 1; Time Domain Performance Requirements; Design Example 2; Performance for Competing Constraints; 7. Internal Stability; Calculating Interpolants; Plants With Simple RHP Zeros and Poles; Parameterization. The General Case; Exercises; References and Further Reading; Part III. Appendices: Appendix A. History and Perspective; Appendix B. Getting OPTDesign and Anopt; Appendix C. Anopt Notebook; Appendix D. NewtonInterpolant Notebook; Appendix E. NewtonFit Notebook.