NonlinearBook10pt November 20, 2007
DISTURBANCE REJECTION CONTROL 605
bounded) closed-loop input-output maps, respectively. In the special case
where the controlled sys tem is linear the results, with appropriate quadratic
supply rates, specialize to the mixed-norm H
2
/H
∞
framework developed
in [49] and the mixed H
2
/positivity framework d eveloped in [146, 151].
The main focus of this chapter is a methodology for designing optimal
nonlinear controllers which guarantee disturbance rejection and minimize
a (derived) performance functional that serves as an upper bound to a
nonlinear-nonquadratic cost functional. In particular, the p erformance
bound can be evaluated in closed form as long as the nonlinear-nonquadratic
cost functional considered is related in a specific way to an underlying
Lyapunov function that guarantees stability. This Lyapunov function
is shown to be the solution to the steady-state form of the Hamilton-
Jacobi-Isaacs equation for the controlled system and plays a key role
in constructing the optimal nonlinear disturbance rejection control law.
Furth ermore, since the nonlinear-nonquadratic cost functional is closely
related to the structure of the Lyapunov function the proposed framework
provides a class of feedback stabilizing controllers that minimize a derived
performance functional. Hence, the overall framework provides for a
generalization of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs conditions for addressing the
design of optimal and inverse optimal controllers for nonlinear systems with
exogenous disturbances.
A key feature of the present chapter is that since the necessary and
sufficient Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs optimality conditions are obtained for a
modified nonlinear-nonquadratic performance functional rather than the
original performance functional, globally optimal controllers are guaranteed
to provide disturbance rejection. Of course, since the approach allows us to
construct globally optimal controllers th at minimize a given Hamiltonian,
the resulting disturbance rejection controllers p rovide the best worst-case
performance over the class of admissible input disturbances.
10.2 Nonlinear Dissipative Dynamical Systems with
Bounded Disturbances
In this chapter, we consider nonlinear dynamical systems G of the form
˙x(t) = f(x(t)) + J
1
(x(t))w(t), x(0) = x
0
, t ≥ 0, (10.1)
z(t) = h(x(t)) + J
2
(x(t))w(t), (10.2)
where x ∈ R
n
, w ∈ R
d
, z ∈ R
p
, f : R
n
→ R
n
, J
1
: R
n
→ R
n×d
, h :
R
n
→ R
p
, and J
2
: R
n
→ R
p×d
. We assume that f (·), J
1
(·), h(·), and
J
2
(·) are continuous mappings and f(·) has at least one equilibrium so th at,
without loss of generality, f(0) = 0 and h(0) = 0. Furthermore, for the