An analysis and design method for linear systems under nested saturation

This paper considers a linear system under nested saturation. Nested saturation arises, for example, when the actuator is subject to magnitude and rate saturation simultaneously. A condition is derived in terms of a set of auxiliary feedback gains for determining if a given ellipsoid is contractively invariant. Moreover, this condition is shown to be equivalent to linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) in the actual and auxiliary feedback gains. As a result, the estimation of the domain of attraction for a given set of feedback gains can be formulated as an optimization problem with LMI constraints. By viewing the feedback gains as extra free parameters, the optimization problem can be used for controller design.

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