H-infinity Strong Stabilization via HIFOO, a Package for Fixed-Order Controller Design

We report on our experience with strong stabilization using HIFOO, a toolbox for H-infinity fixed-order controller design. We applied HIFOO to 21 fixed-order stable H-infinity controller design problems in the literature, comparing the results with those published for other methods. The results show that HIFOO often achieves good H-infinity performance with low-order stable controllers, unlike other methods in the literature.