Linear Matrix Inequalities for signal processing. An overview

Linear Matrix Inequalities for signal processing. An overview

V. Balakrishnan and L. Vandenberghe

Invited presentation at the 32nd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems
Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, March 1998


Abstract: A wide variety of problems in system theory can be formulated (or reformulated) as convex optimization problems involving linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), that is, constraints requiring an affine combination of symmetric matrices to be positive semidefinite. Important examples are the analysis of and design for uncertain systems, and optimal digital filter design and realization. For a few very special cases, there are ``analytical solutions'' to LMI optimization problems, but in general they can be solved numerically very efficiently. Thus, the reduction of a problem from system theory to an optimization problem based on LMIs constitutes, in a sense, a ``solution'' to the original problem. Our objective in this paper is to focus on the application of LMI optimization to problems from signal processing.
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