MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

EECS Colloquium

Grier Room, 34-401, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)

Munther Dahleh, MIT

L1 - Robust Control: Theory, Computation and Design

This talk will give a broad overview of the methodology for designing multi-input multi-output control systems which limit the the maximum amplitude of the error signal in the presence of bounded persistent but unknown disturbance. Traditional design methods are based on specifications in terms of the energy of the error signal, but many practical applications require specifying the peak-to-peak error. This synthesis problem gives rise to an infinite-dimensional convex programming problem. Tools for solving such problems either exactly or approximately will be presented. Finally, the flexibility of this approach for addressing mixed performance objectives will be discussed.