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Design and Application of a Fault Detection Method Based on Adaptive Filters and Rotational Speed Estimation for an Electro-Hydrostatic Actuator

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Efficient decentralized iterative learning tracker for unknown sampled-data interconnected large-scale state-delay

Jason Sheng-Hong Tsai¹, Fu-Ming Chen, Tze-Yu Yu

¹Control System Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan, ROC. shtsai@mail.ncku.edu.tw

ISA Transactions

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This study introduces an efficient decentralized iterative learning tracker to enhance the dynamic performance of large-scale systems with state delays. The new method improves tracking accuracy and speed, even with modeling errors and disturbances.

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Published on: October 28, 2022

Area of Science:

Control Systems Engineering
Large-Scale Systems Theory
Adaptive Control

Background:

Interconnected large-scale systems with state delays present significant dynamic performance challenges.
Accurate modeling and robust control are crucial for effective tracking in such complex systems.
Existing methods may struggle with modeling uncertainties and external disturbances.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose an efficient decentralized iterative learning tracker for sampled-data interconnected large-scale state-delay systems.
To improve the dynamic performance, specifically tracking accuracy and speed, of these complex systems.
To address and mitigate the impact of modeling errors, nonlinear perturbations, and external disturbances.

Main Methods:

Utilized the off-line observer/Kalman filter identification (OKID) method to derive decentralized linear models for subsystems.
Developed an improved high-gain observer using digital redesign to overcome modeling errors from OKID.
Integrated an iterative learning control (ILC) scheme with a high-gain tracker, employing a digital-redesign linear quadratic digital tracker as the initial ILC input.

Main Results:

The proposed decentralized iterative learning tracker significantly improves dynamic performance.
The high-gain controllers effectively suppress uncertain errors, including modeling errors and external disturbances.
The system output achieves quick and accurate tracking of the desired reference within a short interval.

Conclusions:

The developed decentralized iterative learning tracker offers an efficient solution for enhancing the dynamic performance of large-scale state-delay systems.
The integration of high-gain observers and ILC provides robust tracking capabilities.
The proposed approach enables rapid and precise reference tracking, even in the presence of system uncertainties and disturbances.