Accession Number:
AD0840316
Title:
A PIECEWISE-LINEAR SWITCHING FUNCTION FOR QUASI-MINIMUM-TIME CONTROL.
Descriptive Note:
Master's thesis,
Corporate Author:
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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Report Date:
1968-06-01
Pagination or Media Count:
73.0
Abstract:
The design of controllers to provide quasi-minimum time-response is investigated. With the control law to be realized as a piecewise-linear combination of the instantaneous state values, the problem is to select the parameters which define the best suboptimal switching surface. A worst-case response-time performance index is defined and shown to be suitable for use in the suboptimal controller design. A proposed design technique is described and used to determine controllers for second-order systems. The results of the illustrative examples are compared with controllers designed using a least squares polynomial fitting technique. The comparison shows that the proposed method designs significantly better controllers in terms of deviation from optimal response time. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Statistics and Probability