Controller validation based on an identified model

This paper focuses on the validation of a controller that has been designed from an unbiased model of the true system, identified either in open-loop or in closed-loop using a prediction error framework. A controller is said to be validated if it stabilizes all models in a parametric uncertainty set containing the parameters of the true system with some prescribed probability. This uncertainty set is deduced from the covariance matrix of the parameters of the identified model. Our contribution is to embed this set in the smallest possible overbounding coprime factor uncertainty set. This then allows us to use the results of mainstream robust control theory such as the Vinnicombe gap between plants and its related stability theorems.