LPV tracking control for economic management of ecosystems

A key challenge in the economic management of ecosystems is to conceptualize optimality in the presence of disturbances and imperfect measurements. Standard management approaches generate open loop plans that are sensitive to these factors. The take home result of this paper is that an LPV controller can be designed to reject exogenous disturbances and reduce sensitivity to uncertainty in the measurements. The LPV paradigm was chosen since it opens the possibility to design robust management policies for ecosystems with uncertain nonlinear dynamics.