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.