Localized and Distributed H2 State Feedback Control

Abstract: Distributed linear control design is crucial for large-scale cyber-physical systems. It is generally desirable to both impose information exchange (communication) constraints on the distributed controller, and to limit the propagation of disturbances to a local region without cascading to the global network (localization). Recently proposed System Level Synthesis (SLS) theory provides a framework where such communication and localization requirements can be tractably incorporated in controller design and implementation. In this work, we derive a solution to the localized and distributed H2 state feedback control problem without resorting to Finite Impulse Response (FIR) approximation. Our proposed synthesis algorithm allows a column-wise decomposition of the resulting convex program, and is therefore scalable to arbitrary large-scale networks. We demonstrate superior cost performance and computation time of the proposed procedure over previous methods via numerical simulation.