Fixed-order controller design for aircraft engine control applications

Reports on the progress made on a GOALI project sponsored by NSF and General Electric Aircraft Engine Business. Modern aircraft engines are complex multivariable systems whose inputs and outputs need to be fully coordinated to achieve tight performance and robustness specifications. The purpose of this project is to investigate the use of linear matrix inequality (LMI) techniques to designed fixed-order controllers for aircraft engine models and to compare the results to those obtained by other design methods.