“…The global optimum is found with polynomial convergence time (El Ghaoui & Niculescu, 2000). The state-derivative feedback has been examined with various approaches (Abdelaziz & Valášek, 2004;Kwak et al, 2002;Duan et al, 2005;Cardim et al, 2007), but neither them can be applied for uncertain systems or systems subject to structural failures (Isermann, 1997;Isermann & Ballé, 1997;Isermann, 2006). Robust state-derivative feedback LMI-based designs for linear time-invariant and time-varying systems were recently proposed in (Assunção et al, 2007c), but the results does not consider structural failures in the control design.…”