• DocumentCode
    294332
  • Title

    NP-hardness of some linear control design problems

  • Author

    Blondel, Vincent ; Tsitsiklis, John N.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Math., Liege, Belgium
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    13-15 Dec 1995
  • Firstpage
    2910
  • Abstract
    We show that some basic linear control design problems are NP-hard, implying that, unless P=NP, they cannot be solved by polynomial time algorithms. The problems that we consider include simultaneous stabilization by output feedback, stabilization by state or output feedback in the presence of bounds on the elements of the gain matrix, and decentralized control. These results are obtained by first showing that checking the existence of a stable matrix in an interval family of matrices is an NP-hard problem
  • Keywords
    closed loop systems; computational complexity; control system synthesis; linear systems; matrix algebra; stability; state feedback; NP-hard problem; bounds; decentralized control; gain matrix; linear control design; linear systems; output feedback; stabilization; state feedback; Closed loop systems; Control design; Control systems; Feedback control; Laboratories; Linear systems; Mathematics; Output feedback; Polynomials; State feedback;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control, 1995., Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    New Orleans, LA
  • ISSN
    0191-2216
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2685-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CDC.1995.478584
  • Filename
    478584