Volume 32, Issue 18 pp. 9593-9609
SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE

A probabilistic framework to achieve robust non-fragile tuning methods: PD control of IPD-modeled processes

MirSaleh Bahavarnia

MirSaleh Bahavarnia

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

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Mohammad Saleh Tavazoei

Corresponding Author

Mohammad Saleh Tavazoei

Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Correspondence Mohammad Saleh Tavazoei, Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

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First published: 16 June 2021
Citations: 1
Abbreviations: IPD, integral plus delay; ISE, integral squared error; ISTSE, integral squared time squared error; ITSE, integral time squared error; LQ, linear-quadratic; LTI, linear time-invariant; NF, non-fragile; PD, proportional-derivative; PDF, probability density function; PI, proportional-integral; PID, proportional-integral-derivative; PRNF, probabilistic robust non-fragile.

Abstract

We introduce a novel probabilistic framework to achieve robust non-fragile tuning methods in control of processes with parametric uncertainties. We consider probability distributions to model the process parameters' uncertainties. First, we propose the tuning framework in a general setting. Then, as an illustration, we apply it to PD control of IPD-modeled processes. It is noteworthy that the proposed tuning method is robust against the considered parametric uncertainties. Also, to empower the proposed robust tuning method in the viewpoint of non-fragility, we utilize a centroid approach. Selecting the form of the probabilistic framework, we empirically observe some of the popular tuning methods are special cases of the proposed novel framework. Moreover, we theoretically/empirically make a comparison among the tuning methods in the literature based on non-fragility and robustness via such a probabilistic framework.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

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