Newcastle University School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials

Design of Simple Digital Controllers

Part of a set of study notes on Digital Control
by
M. Tham

CONTENTS

Introduction

Direct Synthesis
Dead-beat Controller
Dahlin Controller
Properties of Deadbeat and Dahlin Controllers
Ringing
Pole-placement Controller
Summary
Pole-placement Control

A method that is closely related to the Dahlin controller design is called pole-placement design. It is based on the general feedback system,

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The objective here is to choose R(z), G(z) and F(z) such that the closed loop has user specified pole locations. These 3 transfer functions together make up the controller, and defines the control law which is,

Using the general process representation

the closed loop transfer function for this system is

All desired pole positions are contained in the form of a pole polynomial, T(z), and given knowledge of the process, G(z) and F(z) are solved from

Note that in this case, there is no time-delay compensation as can be discerned by the presence of the time delay term in the characteristic polynomial. Time delay compensation can however be provided if the design problem is posed within a predictive control framework. But that is outside the scope of this current set of notes.

Next we will summarise what have we learnt from this set of notes on Digital Controller Design.

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