Explicit H∞ controllers for 4th order
single-input single-output systems with
parameters and their application to the two
mass-spring system with damping.
The following pictures and/or animations are
sections of the
algebraic surface defining necessary
and sufficient conditions on the unknowns that
parameterize the admissible formal solutions of the
associated
Algebraic Ricatti
Equation. We plot below lambda=gamma^2-1 in function of the reduced system parameter rho, where gamma is the H
∞ criteria which measures the maximal robustness of the closed-loop system of the two mass spring dampler system

The same simulation but setting directly Gamma (G on
the picture) as vertical axis:

Again the same simulation but after
compactifications to one point (Xi =
(gamma-1)/(gamma+1) , nu0 = Gr/(Gr+1) and nu1 = rho/(rho+1)):
Numerical instability. As it could be easily noticed, this surface
is numerically unstable : for example,
implicitplot function from Maple
computes the following picture :

One can observe that simply taking an approximation of the section rho=1/10 with 10 digits of precision will
give the following curve (
certified drowing
) :

while performing the same computation using
rational numbers will give the
following curve (
certified drowing
) :
Certified drawing. We make use of the
bivariate solver described in [1] for computing
an exact parameterization of
the x-critical, y-critical and singular points of the
curve and combine this with the interval
arithmetic variant of the root isolator from [2]
to certify each pixel of the drawing : a
pixel lights if and only if the curve cross
it.
- [1] Bouzidi, Y., Lazard, S., Moroz, G.,
Pouget, M., Rouillier, F. and Sagraloff
M. Improved algorithms for solving bivariate
systems via Rational Univariate
Representations, 2016, Journal of Complexity.
- [2] Rouillier, F. and Zimmermann,
P. Efficient Isolation of Polynomial Real
Roots, 2003, Journal of Computational and Applied
Mathematics, Vol. 162(1), pp. 33-50