on Static Feedback for The L1 And Other Optimal Control Problems

Leonid Mirkin, Ehud Rivlin, and Hector Rotstein.
On Static Feedback for the L1 and Other Optimal Control Problems.
Int.\ J.\ Control, 76(5):453--458, 2003

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Abstract

Although l1-optimal linear state feedback controllers are known to be dynamic, it has been shown that suboptimal performance arbitrarily closed to optimal can be achieved by using a static non-linear feedback law. In this paper, this fact is established by using a novel approach which shows that the result is a natural consequence of elementary state-space theory. The approach is motivated by recent works in active vision systems, which have considered a state-feedback problem tightly connected with l1 optimization. This problem, which has independent interest, is discussed in some detail. The new formulation of the problem provides additional insight in l1 state-feedback. In particular, it leads naturally to some extensions which do not follow in a straightforward manner from previous works on the subject.

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@article{MirkinRR03a,
  title = {On Static Feedback for the L1 and Other Optimal Control Problems},
  author = {Leonid Mirkin and Ehud Rivlin and Hector Rotstein},
  year = {2003},
  journal = {Int.\ J.\ Control},
  volume = {76},
  number = {5},
  pages = {453--458},
  abstract = {Although l1-optimal linear state feedback controllers are known to be dynamic, it has been shown that suboptimal performance arbitrarily closed to optimal can be achieved by using a static non-linear feedback law. In this paper, this fact is established by using a novel approach which shows that the result is a natural consequence of elementary state-space theory. The approach is motivated by recent works in active vision systems, which have considered a state-feedback problem tightly connected with l1 optimization. This problem, which has independent interest, is discussed in some detail. The new formulation of the problem provides additional insight in l1 state-feedback. In particular, it leads naturally to some extensions which do not follow in a straightforward manner from previous works on the subject.}
}