Static Output Feedback Control for Nonlinear Systems subject to Parametric and Nonlinear Uncertainties

Abstract: This work addresses the design of static output feedback control of discrete-time nonlinear systems satisfying a local Lipschitz continuity condition with time-varying uncertainties. The controller has also a guaranteed disturbance attenuation level (Hinfty performance). Thanks to the linearity of the proposed LMIs in both the admissible Lipschitz constant of the system and the disturbance attenuation level, they can be simultaneously optimized through convex multiobjective optimization. The optimization over Lipschitz constant adds an extra important and new feature to the controller, robustness against nonlinear uncertainty. The resulting controller is robust against both nonlinear additive uncertainty and time-varying parametric uncertainties. Explicit norm-wise and element-wise bounds on the tolerable nonlinear uncertainty are derived.