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    Area of Science:

    • Control Systems Engineering
    • Nonlinear System Analysis
    • Robotics and Automation

    Background:

    • Servo systems often exhibit saturation and dead zone nonlinearities, complicating control design.
    • Integral component second-order models require advanced control strategies for optimal performance.
    • Existing methods struggle to balance robustness and performance in nonlinear systems.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a new generation of optimal Proportional-Integral (PI) controllers for servo systems with static nonlinearities.
    • To propose an effective anti-windup scheme addressing integrator wind-up and dead zone compensation.
    • To ensure robust stability and controller robustness against process parametric variations.

    Main Methods:

    • Formulation of objective functions based on integral of time multiplied by absolute error and sensitivity functions.
    • Application of the extended symmetrical optimum (ESO) method with a single design parameter.
    • Development of a back-calculation and tracking anti-windup scheme.
    • Optimization using an adaptive Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) with inequality constraints for robust stability.

    Main Results:

    • Optimal PI controllers designed for nonlinear servo systems.
    • An effective anti-windup strategy that compensates for integrator wind-up and dead zone.
    • Guaranteed robust stability and controller robustness through constrained optimization.
    • Experimental validation on a laboratory servo system for angular position control.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed PI controller tuning method offers an efficient approach to designing resilient control systems.
    • The adaptive GSA-based tuning effectively optimizes PI controllers for challenging servo system applications.
    • The developed control strategy demonstrates superior performance and robustness in experimental settings.