A primal-dual semi-definite programming approach to linearquadratic control
Yao, D.D.; Shuzhong Zhang; Xun Yu Zhou
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
Volume 46, Issue 9, Sep 2001 Page(s):1442 - 1447
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/9.948474
Summary:We study a deterministic linear-quadratic (LQ) control problem
over an infinite horizon, without the restriction that the control cost
matrix R or the state cost matrix Q be positive-definite. We develop a
general approach to the problem based on semi-definite programming (SDP)
and related duality analysis. We show that the complementary duality
condition of the SDP is necessary and sufficient for the existence of an
optimal LQ control under a certain stability condition (which is
satisfied automatically when Q is positive-definite). When the
complementary duality does hold, an optimal state feedback control is
constructed explicitly in terms of the solution to the primal SDP
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