Robust Control, Part 1: What Is Robust Control?

Watch the other videos in this series: Robust Control, Part 2: Understanding Disk Margin - Robust Control, Part 3: Disk Margins for MIMO Systems - This videos covers a high-level introduction to robust control. The goal is to get you up to speed with some of the terminology and to give you a better understanding of what robust control is and how it fits into the larger control field. A system is robust if it’s capable of meeting requirements (usually stability or performance measures) even in the presence of model or disturbance uncertainty. Basically, it’s being able to say, I don’t know my system perfectly or the environment it’s going to operate within, but I’m confident it’s going to work! And robust control theory is how we get that confidence. It’s a method or an approach that we can use to design a system in a way that can handle uncertainty. In this first video, we put some intuition behind these definitio