Nonlinear H∞-control and estimation of optimal H∞-gain

The structure of nonlinear H_∞-controller and the estimation of optimal H_∞-gain are investigated in this paper. The essential problem boils down to the existence of semipositive solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs inequality. Further, the solvability of this first-order fully nonlinear differential inequality is discussed. We look for one kind of special semipositive radial solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs inequality. An explicit estimation of optimal H_∞-gain and explicit formulas of semipositive radial solutions to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs inequality are obtained. The results are quite simple and intuitive. They even shed a new insight on the linear H_∞-theory.