Robust Grid Point-Based Control Design for LPV Systems via Unified TP Transformation

The paper considers a general approach for linear parameter varying (LPV) control. The approach is based on polytopic representation of the LPV system. First, a grid point based control design is applied for a set of linearized models of the LPV system. The design is based on linear time invariant (LTI) techniques. Such control design allows a larger flexibility in the controller structure than the conventional parallel distributed compensation (PDC) based polytopic control. The LPV controller is obtained by linear interpolation between the LTI controllers. The paper proposes linear matrix inequality (LMI) based convex optimization for robustness analysis of the resulting controller. The approach requires the plant and the controller to be defined by a common polytopic structure. It is proposed to obtain this common structure via unified TP model transformation. A simple numerical example shows the efficiency of the proposed control design approach.