Nonlinear Control Synthesis by Convex Optimization

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 310-314

  Prajna, Stephen ^a   Parrilo, Pablo A ^b   Rantzer, Anders ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Density functions; Nonlinear control; Semidefinite programming relaxation; Sum of squares decomposition

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; LYAPUNOV METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STABILITY; STATE SPACE METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

CONVEXITY; SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING RELAXATION;

NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 1442288703     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2003.823000     Document Type: Article

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