Existence of Solutions for the Continuous Algebraic Riccati Equation via Polynomial Optimization

This paper studies the solution existence of the continuous-time algebraic Riccati equation (CARE). We formulate the CARE as two constrained polynomial optimization problems, and then use Lasserre's hierarchy of semi-definite relaxations to solve them. Compared to the existing work, our approaches can obtain the exact positive semi-definite solution of the CARE when the coefficient matrices are symmetric. Moreover, our methods can detect the nonexistence of the positive semi-definite solution for the CARE. Numerical examples show that our approaches are effective compared to the existing methods.