An Introduction To Control and Digital Control Ideas: Control Problem Choosing The Input Changing

An Introduction to Control and
Digital Control Ideas

Jee-Hwan Ryu
School of Mechanical Engineering

Korea University of Technology and Education
Suppose that we are given a system, and we want to make it

behave in some particular, specified way, in response to various
inputs
This is the “Control Problem” – it can be thought of as

choosing the input and changing the system so that it has a
desired input-output behavior
For example, suppose that we want to make the output of the system
“track” (that is “match” or “follow”) a certain shape
We can think of this as making the system output, y, follow the

system reference input, r. Let e be the error y = r-e
In the frequency domain, we can multiply inputs with transfer
functions to get outputs
There are a great many techniques to do this controller
design – this is the topic of various courses in control
• Feedback control systems

• Linear control system
• Digital control
• Adaptive control
• Etc.
Some History of the Control-I

• Water clock (Greeks, 300 BC)
• Steam engine
• Classical Control (1930 – 1960)
– Feedback amplifiers, servomechanisms
– Continuous time, time invariant, SISO, mostly
linear
– Root locus, Nyquist methods, Bode plot
Some History of the Control-II
• Modern Control – State space approach
– Kalman (1960)
– MIMO, time-varying
– Use of linear feedback to place all poles of LTI
systems
• With the advent of low cost computation Î
digital control implementations became
preferred
Digital Control Problem

• Usually trying to control a continuous time system,
but using a digital controller to control it
• Need to be able to convert from continuous time
signal to discrete time signal (“A/D converter”) – this
is just sampling
• Need to be able to convert from discrete time to
continuous time signal (“D/A converter”) – may
ways to do this
Digital Signal Processing
• Continuous time signal source and continuous time
result but use a digital representation to store process
• Need to be able to convert from continuous time

signal to discrete time signal (“A/D converter”) – this
is sampling and often compression
• Often need to be able to convert from discrete time to

a continuous time signal (“D/A converter”) – many
ways to do this
Quantization
Why Use Digital Control ?
• Often Cheaper
• Usually Smaller/lighter
• Usually needs Less power
• Often More precise
• Can Re-program
• Can use same component (with different
programming) Î Generallity
Continuous Control (SISO case)

Digital Control (SISO case)
Two Approaches to Digital Control

System Design Specifications-I
• In time domain
– Stability
– Step response (rise time, settling time, overshoot,
steady-state error)
• In frequency domain
– Filtering properties (high pass, low pass, band
pass)
System Design Specifications-II

• Robustness
– Resistance to modeling errors, noise, small time
variations
– Gain margin, phase margin, sensitivity
• Optimal Control
– Maximize or minimize a specified objective
function
– Usually a cost on trajectory tracking error and on
energy/control input; also may have costs based on
trajectory endpoints
System Design Specifications-III
• Usually the designer must extract this
information from the customer
• Translate the design needs into “intermediate
specifications” – things like z plane or s plane
pole locations
• For digital control, selection of the sampling
time T is an additional consideration (and
perhaps associated filters for anti-aliasing)
Impact of this in emulation…
• If you sample fast enough (>30 times system
bandwidth) Î not a big source of error
• If sampling less than 30 times bandwidth, need
to include the T/2 delay in the continuous time
system model – so that the continuous time
controller is designed to compensate for it
Emulation Design vs Direct Digital

Control
• Emulation
– Can use continuous time methods (well developed)
– Few new tools needed
– Works well if sampling fast
– Mapping of control law from continuous time to
discrete time is not exact
– Ignore continuous system response between
sampling times
Emulation Design vs Direct Digital
Control
• Direct digital control
– Design of discrete time control law (and thus
digital closed loop system) is exact for any
sampling rate
– Ignore continuous system response between
sampling times

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An Introduction to Control and

Digital Control Ideas

School of Mechanical Engineering

Suppose that we are given a system, and we want to make it

This is the “Control Problem” – it can be thought of as

We can think of this as making the system output, y, follow the

• Feedback control systems

Some History of the Control-I

Digital Control Problem

• Need to be able to convert from continuous time

• Often need to be able to convert from discrete time to

Continuous Control (SISO case)

Two Approaches to Digital Control

System Design Specifications-II

Emulation Design vs Direct Digital

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