%I IEEE %P 6297-6302 %T Fixed order LPV controller design for LPV models in input-output form %B Proceedings of the 51st Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) %X In this work, a new synthesis approach is proposed to design fixed-order H? controllers for linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems described by input-output (I/O) models with polynomial dependence on the scheduling variables. First, by exploiting a suitable technique for polytopic outer approximation of semi-algebraic sets, the closed loop system is equivalently rewritten as an LPV I/O model depending affinely on an augmented scheduling parameter vector constrained inside a polytope. Then, the problem is reformulated in terms of bilinear matrix inequalities (BMI) and solved by means of a suitable semidefinite relaxation technique. %L eprints2452 %A Vito Cerone %A Dario Piga %A Diego Regruto %A Roland T?th %R 10.1109/CDC.2012.6426281 %D 2012 %K Approximation methods; Closed loop systems; Linear matrix inequalities; Optimization; Polynomials; Stability analysis Vectors %O 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, held in Maui, Hawaii (USA); December 10-13 2012