Robust data-driven state-feedback design

We consider the problem of designing robust state-feedback controllers for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems, based directly on measured data. The proposed design procedures require no model knowledge, but only a single open-loop data trajectory, which may be affected by noise. First, a data-driven characterization of the uncertain class of closed-loop matrices under state-feedback is derived. By considering this parametrization in the robust control framework, we design data-driven state-feedback gains with guarantees on stability and performance, containing, e.g., the ℋ
_∞
-control problem as a special case. Further, we show how the proposed framework can be extended to take partial model knowledge into account. The validity of the proposed approach is illustrated via a numerical example.