Robust anti-windup synthesis for directionality compensation

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  • A.A. Adegbege
    Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, UAE
  • W.P. Heath
    University of Manchester
We develop new robust synthesis procedures for linear and open-loop exponentially stable multivariable plants subject to input nonlinearities expressed by a quadratic program and incorporating infinity-norm bounded plant uncertainties. The resulting anti-windup control falls into a class of compensators commonly termed directionality compensation. We note that the input-output maps of both the nonlinearities and the uncertainties satisfy certain integral quadratic constraints (IQCs). Thus, the anti-windup synthesis can be reduced to a feasibility problem involving a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The well-posedness condition of the algebraic loop arising from the anti-windup interconnection is equivalent to the existence and uniqueness of a solution to a convex optimization problem for which efficient solutions are well established. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the design compared to several schemes using a highly ill-conditioned benchmark example
Original languageUnknown
Pages (from-to)276-281
Number of pages6
JournalIFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
Volume45
Issue number13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Jun 2012
Externally publishedYes
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