Brief paper: Numerical method for the solution of the regulator equation with application to nonlinear tracking

  • Authors:
  • Branislav Rehák;Sergej elikovský

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, P.O. Box 18, 182 08 Praha 8, Czech Republic;Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, P.O. Box 18, 182 08 Praha 8, Czech Republic and Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Enginee ...

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A numerical method to solve the so-called regulator equation is presented here. This equation consists of partial differential equations combined with algebraic ones and arises when solving the output-regulation problem. Solving the regulator equation is becoming difficult especially for the nonminimum phase systems where reducing variables against algebraic part leads to a potentially unsolvable differential part. The proposed numerical method is based on the successive approximation of the differential part of the regulator equation by the finite-element method while trying to minimize a functional expressing the error of its algebraical part. The method is analyzed to obtain theoretical estimates of its convergence and it is tested on an example of the ''two-carts with an inverted pendulum'' system. Simulations are included to illustrate the suggested approach.