Non-fragile guaranteed cost control for discrete-time uncertain linear systems

This paper studies the problem of non-fragile guaranteed cost control (GCC) state-feedback design for discrete-time uncertain linear systems. The systems are assumed to have norm-bounded system uncertainties in both the state and the input matrices. The state-feedback gains are assumed to have norm-bounded controller uncertainties which can be either additive or multiplicative. The non-fragile GCC state-feedback designs, which are related to solutions of some matrix inequalities, guarantee the cost of the system to be within a certain bound for all these admissible uncertainties. Our proposed design approach of separating the controller uncertainty from the system uncertainty gives a less conservative solution. A numerical example is given to illustrate the design methods and the design benefits.