A static anti-windup compensator design technique for robust regional pole placement

This paper develops a new method of designing anti-windup compensators using the concept of robust pole placement using linear matrix inequality (LMI) regions. The anti-windup problem seeks to minimize the closed loop performance deterioration due to input nonlinearities such as saturation for a given linear time-invariant plant and controller. Existing LMI-based anti-windup synthesis techniques do not explicitly provide a method to account for robust pole placement. This paper suggests a LMI-based method that not only attempts to minimize performance deterioration, but also explicitly restricts the anti-windup closed loop dynamics to an admissible set. Finally, the techniques discussed in this paper are demonstrated on a hydraulic test bed.