Abstract-This paper considers closed-loop quadratic stability and 2 performance properties of linear control systems subject to input saturation. More specifically, these properties are examined within the context of the popular linear antiwindup augmentation paradigm. Linear antiwindup augmentation refers to designing a linear filter to augment a linear control system subject to a local specification, called the "unconstrained closed-loop behavior." Building on known results on and LPV synthesis, the fixed order linear antiwindup synthesis feasibility problem is cast as a nonconvex matrix optimization problem, which has an attractive system theoretic interpretation: the lower bound on the achievable 2 performance is the maximum of the open and unconstrained closed-loop 2 gains. In the special cases of zero-order (static) and plant-order antiwindup compensation, the feasibility conditions become (convex) linear matrix inequalities. It is shown that, if (and only if) the plant is asymptotically stable, plant-order linear antiwindup compensation is always feasible for large enough 2 gain and that static antiwindup compensation is feasible provided a quasi-common Lyapunov function, between the open-loop and unconstrained closed-loop, exists. Using the solutions to the matrix feasibility problems, the synthesis of the antiwindup augmentation achieving the desired level of 2 performance is then accomplished by solving an additional LMI.Index Terms-Antiwindup analysis, antiwindup synthesis, control systems, cost optimal control, finite 2 gain, linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), linear parameter varying (LPV).

This paper deals with the anti-windup technique which can be used to tackle the problems of stability and performance degradation for linear systems with saturated inputs. The anti-windup techniques which can be found in the literature today have evolved from many sources and, even now, are diverse and somewhat disconnected from one another. In this survey, an overview of many recent anti-windup techniques are provided and their connections to one another are stated. The anti-windup technique is also explained within the context of its historical emergence and the likely future directions of the field are speculated. The focus of this paper is on the so-called "modern" anti-windup techniques which began to emerge during the end of the 20th century and which allow a priori guarantees on stability to be made. The survey attempts to provide constructive LMI conditions for the synthesis of anti-windup compensators in both global and local contexts. Finally, some interesting extensions and open problems are discussed, such as nested saturations, the presence of time delays in the state or the input, and anti-windup for nonlinear systems.

Abstract-This paper treats the problem of synthesizing antiwindup compensators that are able to handle plant uncertainty in addition to controller saturation. The uncertainty considered is of the frequency-weighted additive type, often encountered in linear robust control theory, and representative of a wide variety of uncertainty encountered in practice. The main results show how existing linear matrix inequality based antiwindup synthesis algorithms can be modified to produce compensators that accommodate uncertainty better. Embedded within these results is the ever-present performance-robustness tradeoff. A remarkable feature is that the often criticized internal model control antiwindup solution emerges as an "optimally robust" solution. A simple example demonstrates the effectiveness of the modified algorithms.

By viewing the anti-windup problem as a decoupled set of subsystems and relating this configuration to a general static anti-windup set-up, LMI conditions are established which guarantee stability and performance of the resulting closed-loop system. The approach taken, and the mapping used for the performance index, are logical and intuitive -and, it is argued, central to the 'true' anti-windup objective. The approach enables one to construct static anti-windup compensators in a systematic and numerically tractable manner. The idea is extended to allow low-order anti-windup compensators to be synthesised, which, while being sub-optimal, can improve transient performance and possess several desired properties (such as low computational overhead and sensible closed-loop pole locations). In addition, low-order anti-windup synthesis is often feasible when the corresponding static synthesis is not.

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