Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory (Studies in Applied and Numerical Mathematics, Series Number 15) - Softcover

Stephen Boyd; Laurent El Ghaoui; Eric Feron; Venkataramanan Balakrishnan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898714850 ISBN 13: 9780898714852

Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1987

Synopsis

In this book the authors reduce a wide variety of problems arising in system and control theory to a handful of convex and quasiconvex optimization problems that involve linear matrix inequalities. These optimization problems can be solved using recently developed numerical algorithms that not only are polynomial-time but also work very well in practice; the reduction therefore can be considered a solution to the original problems. This book opens up an important new research area in which convex optimization is combined with system and control theory, resulting in the solution of a large number of previously unsolved problems.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Boyd is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University.

Laurent El Ghaoui is Professor of Control Engineering and the Chairman of the Computer and Control Sciences Department at Ecole Nationale Supe'rieure de Techniques Avanc'ees, Paris, France.

Eric Feron is the Charles Stark Draper Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Venkataramanan Balakrishnan is a Research Associate at the Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland.

Review:

"... casual presentation style, simple notation used, and the breadth of the topics considered ... will ultimately make this book a classic." -- --E. E. Yaz, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 42, No. 3, March 1997.

"...excellent, concisely written research monograph which allows [readers] to consider a large variety of results ... in ... a unified computational approach. ..." -- --W. Müller, Zentrallblatt für Mathematik, Band 816/95.

This is an excellent, concisely written research monograph which allows readers to consider a large variety of results on... -- W. Müller, Zentrallblatt für Mathematik, Band 8/16/95

About this edition

• Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0898714850
• ISBN 13: 9780898714852
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 203