H$\infty$ Controllers for Symmetric Systems: A Theory for Attitude Control of Large Space Structures

This paper is concerned with robust attitude control of large space structures with collocated sensors and actuators. Since the transfer function matrices of such systems are symmetric, it seems suitable to employ symmetric controllers. This paper shows that it is true if no constraint is imposed on the orders of the controllers, but it is not true if the orders of the controllers are specified to be lower than that of the system to be controlled.