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Minimal complexity control law synthesisA paradigm for control law design for modern engineering systems is proposed: Minimize control law complexity subject to the achievement of a specified accuracy in the face of a specified level of uncertainty. Correspondingly, the overall goal is to make progress towards the development of a control law design methodology which supports this paradigm. Researchers achieve this goal by developing a general theory of optimal constrained-structure dynamic output feedback compensation, where here constrained-structure means that the dynamic-structure (e.g., dynamic order, pole locations, zero locations, etc.) of the output feedback compensation is constrained in some way. By applying this theory in an innovative fashion, where here the indicated iteration occurs over the choice of the compensator dynamic-structure, the paradigm stated above can, in principle, be realized. The optimal constrained-structure dynamic output feedback problem is formulated in general terms. An elegant method for reducing optimal constrained-structure dynamic output feedback problems to optimal static output feedback problems is then developed. This reduction procedure makes use of star products, linear fractional transformations, and linear fractional decompositions, and yields as a byproduct a complete characterization of the class of optimal constrained-structure dynamic output feedback problems which can be reduced to optimal static output feedback problems. Issues such as operational/physical constraints, operating-point variations, and processor throughput/memory limitations are considered, and it is shown how anti-windup/bumpless transfer, gain-scheduling, and digital processor implementation can be facilitated by constraining the controller dynamic-structure in an appropriate fashion.
Document ID
19900013741
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Bernstein, Dennis S.
(Harris Corp. Melbourne, FL., United States)
Haddad, Wassim M.
(Florida Inst. of Tech. Melbourne., United States)
Nett, Carl N.
(General Electric Co. Schenectady, NY., United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
December 15, 1989
Publication Information
Publication: Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech., Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Aerospace Computational Control, Volume 2
Subject Category
Computer Programming And Software
Accession Number
90N23057
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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