Quadratic and H∞ switching control for discrete-time linear systems with multiplicative noises

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to study the switched stochastic control problem of discrete-time linear systems with multiplicative noises. We consider both the quadratic and the H∞ criteria for the performance evaluation. Initially we present a sufficient condition based on some Lyapunov–Metzler inequalities to guarantee the stochastic stability of the switching system. Moreover, we derive a sufficient condition for obtaining a Metzler matrix that will satisfy the Lyapunov–Metzler inequalities by directly solving a set of linear matrix inequalities, and not bilinear matrix inequalities as usual in the literature of switched systems. We believe that this result is an interesting contribution on its own. In the sequel we present sufficient conditions, again based on Lyapunov–Metzler inequalities, to obtain the state feedback gains and the switching rule so that the closed loop system is stochastically stable and the quadratic and H∞ performance costs are bounded above by a constant value. These results are illustrated with some numerical examples.