Geometric control of algebraic systems

Abstract: In this paper, we present a geometric approach for computing the controlled invariant set of a continuous-time control system. While the problem is well studied for in the ellipsoidal case, this family is quite conservative for constrained or switched linear systems. We reformulate the invariance of a set as an inequality for its support function that is valid for any convex set. This produces novel algebraic conditions for the invariance of sets with polynomial or piecewise quadratic support function. We compare it with the common algebraic approach for polynomial sublevel sets and show that it is significantly more conservative than our method.