In this paper we survey the primary research, both theoretical and applied, in the field of Robust Optimization (RO). Our focus will be on the computational attractiveness of RO approaches, as well as the modeling power and broad applicability of the methodology. In addition to surveying the most prominent theoretical results of RO over the past decade, we will also present some recent results ...

This paper presents a Converse Lyapunov Function Theorem motivated by robust control analysis and design. Our result is based upon, but generalizes, various aspects of well-known classical theorems. In a unified and natural manner, it (1) allows arbitrary bounded time-varying parameters in the system description, (2) deals with global asymptotic stability, (3) results in smooth (infinitely diff...

The paper presents robust controller design for systems with uncertain transport delays. Robust PI controllers are designed using approach, which combines the method based on plotting the stability boundary locus in the (kp, ki)-plane with the pole-placement method. The approach enables to assure robust stability of the closed loop as well as the quality of the control response prescribed by th...

In this paper, a linear parametric friction model is formulated by linearizing a nonlinear empirical friction model in parameters. A proposed decompositionbased control design framework is applied to synthesize the friction compensation scheme. A separate compensator is designed for each type of friction utilizing the most suitable control technique. The nominal friction is compensated by feedf...

In this paper, the delay-dependent robust control problem is considered for time-delay systems with polytopic uncertainty. Robust stabilizing controller and robust H∞ controller are designed by using a parameter-dependent Lyapunov function that can reduce the conservativeness when used in robust performance analysis and synthesis problems for polytopic systems. Furthermore, multichannel H∞ dyna...

This year, we participated in TRECVID 2010 content-based copy detection task. In this notebook paper we will describe our work in details. Different from last year when we just used SURF (speeded up robust feature) as visual feature, this year we employed a combination of four different features for our rough detection process: global SURF, center SURR, global color correlogram and center corre...

The original RObust Header Compression (ROHC) RFC (RFC 3095) defines a framework for header compression, along with compression protocols (profiles) for IP/UDP/RTP, IP/ESP (Encapsulating Security Payload), IP/UDP, and also a profile for uncompressed packet streams. However, no profile was defined for compression of IP only, which has been identified as a missing piece in RFC 3095. This document...

This paper surveys some signi ̄cant applications of interval analysis to robust control ̄eld. Interval analysis is specially powerful in bounding the ranges of functions while providing mathematically rigorous results. This capability is especially welcome in robust control, since a variety of analysis and design problems can be cast in the evaluation of the range of functions over intervals. To...