Da-Wei Gu, Petko Hr. Petkov and Mihail Konstantinov

SLICOT Working Note 1999-12: September 1999.

This report summarizes the progress made in the sub-task IV.A of the NICONET project. Selected routines to implement H_inf and H_2 (sub) optimization syntheses are listed, which have all been standardized and included in the SLICOT package. The integration of those routines in MATLAB has also been completed; the MEX-files are attached in the appendices. This report discusses the selection and testing of benchmark problems with regard to the developed routines, and the comparisons made between these routines and others available in MATLAB. In particular, two industrial benchmark case studies, namely the controller design of a Bell 205 helicopter and a distillation column design, are introduced and the design results, obtained using the developed routines, are analysed.