The goal of optimal filtering is to design a filter that acts on the output z of the generalized plant and optimizes the transfer matrix from w
to the filtered output. An H2-optimal filter is designed to minimize the norm of (will be defined below).
Consider the discrete-time generalized LTI plant with minimal states space
realization
where it is assumed that A_{d} is Schur. A discrete-time dynamics LTI filter with state-space realization
is to be designed to optimize the transfer function from w{k} to , given by
,
where
Solve for that minimize subject to
< 0 ,
< 0 ,
The filter is recovered by the state-space matrices