Design of track-following controller satisfying robust performance condition on Nyquist diagram

Abstract

A new approach for the robust fixed-order H ∞ controller design by convex optimization is proposed. In this paper, the robust performance condition is represented by a set of convex constraints with respect to the parameters of a linearly parameterized controller on the Nyquist diagram for prespecified frequency points. This method can directly handle frequency-domain uncertainty without any modeling. Frequency-domain uncertainty can be minimized by selecting the appropriate nominal plant model for the corresponding frequency points in the proposed method. The proposed method is compared with the standard H ∞ control by numerical simulation examples on a track-following control of a Hard Disk Drive.