Technical communique: Extensions to "virtual reference feedback tuning: A direct method for the design of feedback controllers"

  • Authors:
  • Antonio Sala;Alicia Esparza

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Systems Engineering and Control, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, 14, E-46022 Valencia, Spain;Department of Systems Engineering and Control, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, 14, E-46022 Valencia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The papers [Campi, Lecchini & Savaresi (2002). Automatica, 38(8), 1337-1346; (2003). European Journal of Control, 9(1), 66-76] present a direct controller synthesis procedure that uses identification algorithms applied to filtered input-output plant data. This contribution discusses variations that, in some cases, may alleviate noise-induced correlation (in the open-loop case) and allow the applicability of the approach to unstable plants. Importantly, it also introduces an invalidation test step based on the available data (i.e., prior to experimental controller testing), to check if the flexibility of the controller parameterisation and the approximations involved are suitable for the design objectives or, on the contrary, the resulting closed loop may be unstable.