THE DIGITAL ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF A LINEAR PROCESS MODULATED BY RANDOM NOISE

Abstract

A procedure for the design of a digital controller to compensate a certain class of linear timevarying processes is presented. The process time variation may be rapid compared to the input signals and is assumed to be caused by modulation of a plant with known parameters (perhaps also time-varying) by a number of correlated random disturbances. The general results are applied through digital computer simulation to an example involving a plant modulated at the input by correlated random noise. The adaptive controller employed to compensate this plant is shown to produce far better performance than a nonadaptive fixed controller which cannot take noise correlation into account. Finally, a method of generating sets of correlated gaussian time series with specified cross-and autocorrelation functions is described. Such a technique is required in the simulation study, as well as having important applications in many other fields. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0271714

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  • Christopher Pottle

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  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

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  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Autocorrelation
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  • Modulation
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