Design of Robust Output Feedback Guaranteed Cost Control for a Class of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems

This paper investigates static output feedback guaranteed cost control for a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems where the delay in state vector is inconsistent with the delay in nonlinear perturbations. Based on the output measurement, the controller is designed to ensure the robust exponentially stability of the closed-loop system and guarantee the performance of system to achieve an adequate level. By using the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional method, some sufficient conditions for the existence of robust output feedback guaranteed cost controller are established in terms of linear matrix inequality. A numerical example is provided to show the effectiveness of the results obtained. 1. Introduction In control theory and practice, one of the most important open problems is the static output feedback (SOF) problem. The main principle of the SOF control is to utilize the measured output to excite the plant. Since the controller can be easily implemented in practice, the SOF control has attracted a lot of attention over the past few decades and has been applied to many areas such as economic, communication, and biological systems [1, 2]. The goal of design SOF controller is to ensure asymptotically stable or exponential stable of the original system [3]. However, in many practical systems, controller designed is to not only ensure asymptotically or exponentially stable of the system but also guarantee the performance of system to achieve an adequate level. One method of dealing with this problem is the guaranteed cost control first introduced by Chang and Peng [4]. This method has the advantage of providing an upper bound on a given performance index and thus the system performance degradation is guaranteed to be no more than this bound. Based on this idea, a lot of significant results have been addressed for continuous-time systems in [5–7] and for discrete-time systems in [8]. It is well known that time-delays as well as parameter uncertainties frequently lead to instability of systems. Moreover, the existing of time-delays and uncertainties make the system more complex [9, 10]. In the past studies for guaranteed cost control, almost most of the articles considered linear systems [11, 12]. However, in majority dynamic systems, the nonlinear perturbations appear more and more frequently. Therefore, we not only deal with the time-varying delays and uncertainties, but also deal with the nonlinearities. Difficulties then arise when one attempts to derive exponential stabilization conditions. Hence in this case, the methods in linear systems [11, 12] can