Unified Gradient Approach to Performance Optimization under a Pole Assignment Constraint.

General closed-loop performance optimization problems with pole assignment constraint are considered in this paper under a unified framework. By introducing a free-parameter matrix and a matrix function based on the solution of a Sylvester equation, the constrained optimization problem is transformed into an unconstrained one, thus reducing the problem of closed-loop performance optimization with pole placement constraint to the computation of the gradient of the performance index with respect to the free-parameter matrix. Several classical performance indices are then optimized under the pole placement constraint. The effectiveness of the proposed gradient method is illustrated with an example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]