OPTIMAL PERIODIC OUTPUT FEEDBACK CONTROL: A CONTINUOUS TIME APPROACH

This paper addresses the problem of optimal static output feedback control of linear periodic systems. The proposed approach, which allows to deal with both stable and unstable open loop systems, relies on a continuous-time formulation of the control problem. A nonlinear programming based approach is used to solve the underlying optimization problem. The evaluation of cost function and its derivative largely benefits of the recent advances in algorithms to solve continuous-time periodic Lyapunov equations.