This paper is concerned with the H-2-optimal estimation of a linear combina
tion of the state and of the input of a discrete-time linear time-invariant
dynamic system. We reformulate such problem in terms of a set of three lin
ear matrix inequalities (LMI) and we provide explicit formulas to Compute a
family of solutions for such LMIs. This family is explicitly parameterized
by a real parameter epsilon. The H-2 performance of the corresponding filt
er may be rendered arbitrarily close to the optimum by choosing a sufficien
tly small epsilon. This procedure is shown to be computationally very effic
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