The Modern Theory of Robust Control
The theory of robust control began in the late 1970s and early 1980s and soon developed a number of techniques for dealing with bounded system uncertainty.
Probably the most important example of a robust control technique is H-infinity loop-shaping, which was developed by Duncan McFarlane and Keith Glover of Cambridge University; this method minimizes the sensitivity of a system over its frequency spectrum, and this guarantees that the system will not greatly deviate from expected trajectories when disturbances enter the system.
An emerging area of robust control from application point of view is Sliding Mode Control (SMC) which is a variation of variable structure control (VSS). Robustness property of SMC towards matched uncertainty as well as the simplicity in design attracted a variety of application.
Another example is loop transfer recovery (LQG/LTR), which was developed to overcome the robustness problems of LQG control.
Other robust techniques includes Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT), Gain scheduling etc.
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