HIFOO: A Matlab Package for H-infinity Optimization

Main References

D. Arzelier, G. Deaconu, S. Gumussoy and D. Henrion. H2 for HIFOO (International Conference on Control and Optimization with Industrial Applications, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, August 2011) pdf
S. Gumussoy, D. Henrion, M. Millstone and M.L. Overton. Multiobjective Robust Control with HIFOO 2.0 (in IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design, Haifa, 2009) pdf
S. Gumussoy, M. Millstone and M.L. Overton. H-infinity Strong Stabilization via HIFOO, a Package for Fixed-Order Controller Design (in Proceedings of CDC, Cancun, 2008) pdf
S. Gumussoy and M.L. Overton. Fixed-Order H-infinity Controller Design via HIFOO, a Specialized Nonsmooth Optimization Package. (in Proceedings of ACC, Seattle, 2008) pdf
M. Millstone. HIFOO1.5: Structured control of linear systems with a non-trivial feedthrough Master's Thesis. Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 2006. pdf
J. V. Burke, D. Henrion, A. S. Lewis, and M. L. Overton. HIFOO - A MATLAB Package for Fixed-order Controller Design and H-infinity Optimization (in IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design Toulouse, 2006) pdf

Applications of HIFOO

S. Türkay and H. Akçay. Multi-Objective Control Design for a Truck Cabin (19th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control, Cape Town, South Africa. August 24-29, 2014) link
S. Khodaverdian and J. Adamy. Robust Output Synchronization for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems based on Input-Output Decoupling (11th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation, Taichung, Taiwan, June 18-20, 2014: 607-613) link
S. Khodaverdian and J. Adamy. A Noninteracting Control Strategy for the Robust Output Synchronization of Linear Heterogeneous Networks (Control Theory and Technology, 2014, 12(3): 234-249) link
M. Řezáč and Z. Hurák. Structured MIMO H∞ Design for Dual-stage Inertial Stabilization: Case Study for HIFOO and Hinfstruct Solvers (Mechatronics 23, pp. 1084-1093, 2013) link
I. Yaesh and U. Shaked. H-infinity Optimization With Pole Constraints of Static Output-Feedback Controllers -- A Non-Smooth Optimization Approach (IEEE Trans. Control Sys. Technology 20, pp. 1066-1072, 2012) link
A. Wahrburg, S. Khodaverdian and J. Adamy. Robust Observer-Based Fault Detection and Isolation in the Standard Control Problem Framework (7th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design, Aalborg, Denmark, 2012, pp. 473-478) link
H. Akçay and S. Türkay. Influence of tire damping on actively controlled quarter-car suspensions (J. Vib. Acoust., Volume 133, Issue 5, 054501, 2011) link
T. Haniš and M. Hromčík. Flexible aircraft lateral control law of low order (Czech Aerospace Proceedings, Prague, 2/2011) link
T. Haniš and M. Hromčík. Lateral Flight Dynamic Controller for Flexible BWB Aircraft (Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Process Control, Bratislava, Slovenska technicka univerzita, 2011, p. 333-337) pdf
T. Haniš and M. Hromčík. Lateral control for flexible BWB high-capacity passenger aircraft (Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, 2011, p. 7233-7237) pdf
T. Haniš and V. Kucera and M. Hromčík. Low Order H infinity Optimal Control for ACFA Blended Wing Body (4th European Conference for Aerospace Sciences (EUCASS), Saint Petersburg, 2011) pdf
A.P. Popov, H. Werner and M. Millstone. Fixed-structure discrete-time ℌ∞ controller synthesis with HIFOO (Proceedings of CDC 2010, Atlanta, 3152-3155) link
B. Robu, V. Budinger, L. Baudouin, C. Prieur and D. Arzelier. Simultaneous H-infinity vibration control of fluid/plate system via reduced-order controller (Proceedings of CDC 2010, Atlanta, 3146-3151) pdf
G. Pouly, J.-P. Lauffenburger and M. Basset. Reduced Order Hinfinity Control Design of a Nose Landing Gear Steering System (12th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, February 2010) link
T. Delwiche. Contribution to the Design of Control Laws for Bilateral Teleoperation with a View to Applications in Minimally Invasive Surgery (PhD thesis, Free University of Brussels, October 2009) pdf
D. Arzelier, E.N. Gryazina, D. Peaucelle and B.T. Polyak. Mixed LMI/Randomized Methods for Static Output Feedback Control Design (LAAS-CNRS technical report N°09535, September 2009) pdf
A. Wildschek, R. Maier, M. Hromcik, T. Hanis, A. Schirrer, M. Kozek, C. Westermayer and M. Hemedi. Hybrid Controller for Gust Load Alleviation and Ride Comfort Improvement Using Direct Lift Control Flaps (In 3rd European Conference for Aerospace Sciences (EUCASS). 2009) pdf
D. Dotta, A. S. e Silva and I. C. Decker. Design of Power Systems Controllers by Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Optimization (In IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting. Calgary, Canada. 2009) link
F.C. Wang and H.T Chen. Design and implementation of fixed-order robust controllers for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell system (International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 34, pp. 2705-2717, 2009). link
D. Knittel, D. Henrion, M. Millstone and M. Vedrines. Fixed-order and Structure H-infinity Control with Model Based Feedforward for Elastic Web Winding Systems. (in Proceedings of the IFAC/IFORS/IMACS/IFIP Symposium on Large Scale Systems. Gdansk, Poland. July 2007) pdf

Additional Benchmarks

S. Gumussoy and M.L. Overton. Timings for Numerical Experiments on Benchmark Examples for Fixed Order H-infinity Controller Design pdf
D. Henrion. Some Control Design Experiments with HIFOO pdf