DESIGN OF A NEW INTERPOLATED CONTROLLER FOR STABILIZATION OF A SET OF INTERPOLATED PLANTS

Stabilization of a plant with variable operating conditions was considered. The plant is assumed to lie in a set of interpolated models composed of all interpolations generated between certain sets of proper stable coprime factorizations of transfer functions of two representative models that are defined at two representative operating points. An interpolated controller that is linear interpolation of coprime factorizations of two stabilizing controllers for the two representative models is designed to stabilize this set of interpolated models. Design of such an interpolated controller was converted to a feasibility problem constrained by several LMIs and a BMI, and a two step iteration algorithm was employed to solve it.