Robust stabilization of normalized coprime factor plant descriptions with H/sub infinity /-bounded uncertainty

The problem of robustly stabilizing a family of linear systems is explicitly solved in the case where the family is characterized by H/sub infinity / bounded perturbations to the numerator and denominator of the normalized left coprime factorization of a nominal system. This problem can be reduced to a Nehari extension problem directly and gives an optimal stability margin. All controllers satisfying a suboptimal stability margin are characterized, and explicit state-space formulas are given.>