Control Theory

Some starting points on control theory are IEEE Working group on robust control, Boyd's home page, and Apkarian's publications.

• B. Fares and D. Noll and P. Apkarian.
  "Robust Control via Sequential Semidefinite Programming",
  2000, to appear in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.
  pdf-file (ftp)
• D. D. Yao, S. Zhang, X. Y. Zhou.
  "LQ Control without Riccati Equations: Stochastic Systems",
  Econometric Institute Report EI9920/A, Erasmus University Rotterdam, April 1999.
  ps-file (http)
• L. Vandenberghe, S. Boyd, A. El Gamal.
  "Optimizing dominant time constant in RC circuits",
  November 1996.
  ps.Z-file (ftp) and abstract (html)
• L. Vandenberghe, S. Boyd, and S.-P. Wu.
  "Determinant maximization with linear matrix inequality constraints",
  April 1996.
  ps.z-file (ftp), abstract
• S. Boyd and L. Vandenberghe.
  "Semidefinite programming relaxations of non-convex problems in control and combinatorial optimization",
  February 1996.
  abstract and ps.Z-file (ftp)
• S. Boyd, V. Balakrishnan, E. Feron and L. ElGhaoui.
  "Control system analysis and synthesis via linear matrix inequalities",
  Proc. Acc, 1993, pp. 2147-2154.