The Optimal Multiplier Method for Nonlinear Robustness Analysis

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of characterizing the stability of an exponentially stable, linear time invariant system connected with a single feedback monotone nonlinearity. By using the optimal multiplier approach as in [1], this problem is transformed to a constrained infinite dimensional optimization. A sequence of approximate finite dimensional problems is then constructed and three algorithms are proposed for their solutions. In applying these algorithms to a large number of examples, convergence is typically very fast, and a surprisingly many of them are found to satisfy the Kalman Conjecture.

Reference
J. Wen, X. Chen (1990). The Optimal Multiplier Method for Nonlinear Robustness Analysis American Control Conference, May, 1990, pp.645–650.