This paper considers the so-called model-based approach to anti-windup comp
ensation and analyses the stability of the closed-loop system for a class o
f input nonlinearities. The degrees of freedom in the anti-windup scheme ar
e used to minimise the H-infinity norm of the transfer function around the
nonlinearity and the Small Gain Theorem is used to prove stability. (C) 199
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