Song, Zhuoyue, Lanzon, Alexander, Patra, Sourav, and Petersen, Ian R.
Subjects
*ROBUST control, *STATE feedback (Feedback control systems), *UNCERTAINTY (Information theory), *IMAGING systems, *POSITION sensors, *ENGINEERING, *ACTUATORS, *DYNAMICAL systems
Abstract
Abstract: Negative-imaginary systems have important engineering applications, for example, in lightly damped flexible structures with collocated position sensors and force actuators. This paper proposes a new Negative-Imaginary Lemma for generalized negative-imaginary systems, where the minimality assumption is relaxed. The proposed lemma facilitates both analysis and synthesis for negative-imaginary systems. Invoking this result, a systematic robust static state-feedback synthesis method is proposed in an LMI framework for systems with strictly negative-imaginary uncertainty (e.g. unmodeled spill-over dynamics in a lightly damped flexible structure) assuming all states are available for state feedback. Two numerical examples are given to show the usefulness of the proposed results. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]