Journal article
Intermittent redesign of continuous controllers
PJ Gawthrop, L Wang
International Journal of Control | Published : 2010
Abstract
The reverse-engineering idea developed by Maciejowski in the context of model-based predictive control is applied to the redesign of continuous-time compensators as intermittent controllers. Not only does this give a way of designing constrained input and state versions of continuous-time compensators but also provides a method for turning continuous-time compensators into event-driven versions. The procedure is illustrated by three examples: an event-driven PID controller relevant to the human balance control problem, a constrained version of the classical mechanical vibration absorber of den Hartog and an event driven and constrained vibration absorber. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.
Grants
Awarded by Advanced Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre
Funding Acknowledgements
Peter Gawthrop is a Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellow and gratefully acknowledges the support of the Leverhulme Trust. The work reported here was accomplished whilst the first author was a Visiting Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne supported by the Australian Advanced Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC). The work reported here is partly supported by the linked EPSRC Grants EP/F068514/1, EP/F069022/1 and EP/F06974X/1 'Intermittent control of man and machine'.