An Input-Output Parametrization of Stabilizing Controllers: amidst Youla and System Level Synthesis

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel input-output parametrization of the set of internally stabilizing output-feedback controllers for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. Our underlying idea is to directly treat the closed-loop transfer matrices from disturbances to input and output signals as design parameters and exploit their affine relationships. This input-output perspective is particularly effective when a doubly-coprime factorization is difficult to compute, or an initial stabilizing controller is challenging to find; most previous work requires one of these pre-computation steps. Instead, our approach can bypass such pre-computations, in the sense that a stabilizing controller is computed by directly solving a linear program (LP). Furthermore, we show that the proposed input-output parametrization allows for computing norm-optimal controllers subject to quadratically invariant (QI) constraints using convex programming.

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