Digital Control

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Control System Terminology
Computer Based Control Control Theory Classical Approach to Analog Controller Design

Control System Terminology

Control System Interconnection of components to provide a desired function Plant- The portion of the system to be controlled Controller The portion of the system that does the controlling Digital Control System- Uses digital hardware (digital computer) Analog Control System- Electronic controller made of resistors , capacitors and operational amplifiers. Signals (i) Continuous time signals (defined for all time) (ii) Discrete time signals (defined at discrete instant of time )
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Advantage of Digital Control

Reconfiguration, Flexibility (Controlled by changing software ) Wide selection of Control Algorithms

Integrated Control of Industrial System- (Production planning, scheduling, optimization, operations control) Future Generation Control System (AI)

Command input

Disturbance input

Controlled output

Computer
A/D
D/A Final Control Element Plant

Clock

Sensor

Basic structure of a computer controlled system

Radar Tracking

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Servomechanism for Steering of Antenna

Servomotor Tachogenerator

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Computer D/A Power amplifier

Actual shaft position

Velocity signal Shaft-angle encoder

Gear

Azimuthal servomechanism for steering of antenna

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Functional block diagram of azimuthal servomechanism

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Power amplifier Motor + Load

Tachogenerator Rate signal

Variable Speed DC Drive

Load Speed reference + Actual speed Tachogenerator

A/D ac Full bridge rectifier circuit

Motor

Digital Computer SCR trigger control circuit

Over current Protection

SCR
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Liquid Level Control System

Expansion slot of PC

Step Motor Controller Card

Driver Circuit

Step Motor
V1 Pump

V2

Sump

A/D conversion card

Bridge and amplifier circuit

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Day 2
An Overview of classical approach to analog controller design Basic digital control scheme Principle of signal conversion Basic discrete time signals

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Computer Based Control

1950 Digital Computer (main frame) 1962 Digital Computer, Direct Digital Control ( no analog controller) 1970 Small, faster, more reliable and cheap computer- Minicomputer 1975 Microcomputer DCCS Distributed Computer Control System for control of large and complex process SCADA- Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (i) Data Acquisition and Communication (ii) Event and alarm reporting (iii) Data processing (iv) Partial process control CIPS Computer Integrated Process System

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Machine tool numerical control- hard- wired function was replaced by software- CNC CNC- Computerized Numerical Control CIMS Computer Integrated Manufacturing System PLC Programmable Logic Controller

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Control Theory
1940 -1950 Classical control theory- Routh-Hurwitz , Root Locus, Nyquist, Bode, Nichols use transfer function in complex frequency (Laplace Variable s)domain Limited to SISO system and linear time invariant system 1950- 1960 Modern Control System model in time domain- MIMO Lyapunov Stability criterion, pole placement by state feedback, state observers, optimal control Model based control Knowledge based controlIntelligent control using AI techniques ( Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network)
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An Overview of classical approach to analog controller design

Y(t) Controlled variable of the system m(t) Manipulated variable Yr(t) Desired value of controlled variable Gp(s) TF of controller system H(s) TF of feedback element w(t) - Disturbance b(t) Feedback signal e(t) = yr y(t) System Error A(s) - TF of reference input element r(t) Reference input compatible with b(t) e(t) Actuating error signal D(s) TF of controller u(t) Control signal( Has knowledge about the desired control action) GA(s) TF of actuator element (develop enough torque, pressure or heat )

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The O/P equation Y(s) is given by --------- (1)

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----(2)

----(3)

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------(4) ------(5) Sub (4) in (5) we obtain (6) ------(6) From (6) we obtain the Reference Transfer Function M(s) ------(7)

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----(8) ----(9) Sub (8) in (9) and solving y(s)/W(s) will give the disturbance Transfer Function Mw(s)

----(10)

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The response to the simultaneous application of R(s) and W(s) is given by -----(11)

From equation (7) & (10) M(s) and Mw(s) are closed loop Transfer Functions

Roots of the characteristic equation poles of the system

are closed loop

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Day 3
Time Domain Model for Discrete- Time System
State Variable Model Difference Equation Model Impulse Response Model Transfer Function Model
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Time Domain Model for Discrete- Time System

Discrete time system is defined mathematically as a transformation, or an operator that maps an input sequence r(t) into an output sequence y(k).

State Variable Model

The state equation and output equation of the system together give the state variable model of the system.

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MATLAB Program

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State Equation

Output Equation

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The state variable formulation as block diagram

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Difference Equation Model

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Impulse Response Model

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Transfer Function Model

Analytical study of a system is to set up mathematical equation to describe the system. Let us take a linear time invariant discrete time system that is initially relaxed at k=0

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Difference eq.

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Z Transform Shifting theorem Z[y(k+n)]=zn Y(z)- zn Y(0)- zn-1Y(1)-. z2y(n-2)-zy(n-1)

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In equation 1

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Substituting 3a & 3b in 2 we get

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Transfer Function of Unit Delayer

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Day 4
Stability on the Z-Plane BIBO Stability Zero-input Stability Jury Stability Criterion

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Stability on the Z-Plane & Jury Stability Criterion

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BIBO Stability

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Zero-input Stability

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Practical aspects of the choice of Sampling Rate

Long sampling interval reduces computational load, need for rapid A/D conversion and hardware cost of the project. It result in degrading effects Limiting Factor for Choice of Sampling Rate Information loss due to sampling (i) Real signals are not band limited (ii) Ideal lowpass filters are not physically realizable (iii) ZOH introduce reconstruction errors. Information loss due to Disturbance (i) High frequency noise appear as low frequency signals due to aliasing effect causing loss of information (ii) Cut off frequency of anti aliasing filter must be higher than system bandwidth
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 Destabilizing Effects Due to conversion times and computation times digital algorithm contain dead- time . Algorithm- accuracy Effects Discretization process (ie) transformation of an algorithm from continuous time to discrete time form introduces error Word-length Effects

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Empirical rule for selection of sampling rate

Practical experience and simulation results have produced useful rules for specification of minimum sampling rates.
Type of Variable Flow Level Pressure Temperature Sampling time(s) 1-3 5 - 10 1-5 10 - 20

(i) Table gives values from the experience of process industries (ii) Fast acting electromechanical system require shorter sampling intervals few milliseconds
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 The rule of thumb says, a sampling period needs to be selected much shorter than any of the time constants in the continuous time plant . For complex poles with imaginary part d the frequency of transient oscillation corresponding to the pole is d . Rule suggests sampling at the rate of 6 to 10 times per cycle. Sampling rates can be based on the bandwidth of the closedloop system. Reasonable sampling rates are 10 to 30 times the bandwidth. For closed loop performance the sampling interval T should be equal to or less than, one-tenth of the desired settling time.

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Routh Stability criterion on the r - plane

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 The outside of the unit circle in the z-plane is transformed to the right half of the new complex plane. The boundary of the unit circle in the z-plane is transformed into the imaginary axis of the new complex plane. The inside of the unit circle in the z-plane is transformed into the left half of the new complex plane.

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 In the stability analysis using the bilinear transformation coupled with Routh stability criterion substitute (w+1)/(w-1) for z in the characteristic equation (z)=0 , where w=+j , to obtain the characteristic equation (w)=0

Problem: Consider the following Characteristic equation P(z) = z3-1.3z2-0.08z+0.24=0 . Determine whether or not any of the roots of the characteristic equation lie outside the unit circle in the z plane. Use the bilinear transformation and Routh stability criterion.
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-0.14w3+1.06w2+5.10w+1.98 = 0 w3-7.571w2-36.43w-14.14 = 0

w3 w2 w1 w0

1 -7.571 -38.30 -14.14

-36.43 -14.14 0

Since there is one sign change for the coefficient in the first column there is one root in the right half of the w plane. The system is unstable.

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