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Fundamental Limitation of Feedback Control

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Feedback systems are designed to meet many different objectives. Yet, not all design objectives are achievable as desired due to the fact that they are often mutually conflicting and that the system properties themselves may impose design constraints and thus limitations on the performance attainable. An important step in the control design process is then to analyze what and how system characteristics may impose constraints, and accordingly, how to make tradeoffs between different objectives by judiciously navigating between the constraints. Fundamental limitation of feedback control is an area of research that addresses these constraints, limitations, and tradeoffs.

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    Jie Chen

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    John Baillieul

  2. Automation and Control Solutions, Honeywell, Golden Valley, Minnesota, USA

    Tariq Samad

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Chen, J. (2013). Fundamental Limitation of Feedback Control. In: Baillieul, J., Samad, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5102-9_156-1

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