Brief paper: Generalized sampled-data hold functions with asymptotic zero-order hold behavior and polynomic reconstruction

  • Authors:
  • Unai Ugalde;Rafael Bárcena;Koldo Basterretxea

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present a generalized sampled-data hold function that combines arbitrary z-domain zero-placement ability with zero-order hold behavior under constant input, thus exhibiting minimal intersample ripple by design. Our hold can be regarded as a generalization of the fractional-order hold, with a polynomial instead of a simple linear pattern, and therefore with as many tuning parameters as desired. Moreover, the polynomial approach turns out to provide a simple mechanism of control energy minimization. Among other benefits, all these features help to achieve qualitatively better perfect model referencing, because problematic sampling z-zeros or the intersample issues of the conventional generalized holds need no longer be endured.