Computer-Aided Design of Robust Decentralized Controllers.

Abstract

Significant progress was made on all of the tasks proposed for the Phase I (feasibility) effort. In addition to the 4 tasks that was originally proposed, a new subtask on simultaneously stabilizing controllers was included, and a model of a flexible structure was used for which two types of fault tolerant controllers were designed. The concept of fixed modes was extended to that of a decentralized fixed determinant and significant new results for characterizing fixed determinants were obtained. A characterization of all decentralized controllers was obtained based on which conditions for the existence of robust decentralized controllers were derived, in case of a two channel system. Finally, and iterative solution (of nonlinear programming type) was proposed for optimal decentralized filtering of a two-channel system. In this way a firm foundation in Phase I was laid based on which a state-of-the-art approach to computer-aided design of robust decentralized control problems can be carried out. Additional keywords: Numerical methods and procedures; Flight dynamics; Computations. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA160118

Entities

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  • H. C. Razavi
  • Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
  • R. K. Mehra

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  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

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  • Air Force
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  • Computational Science
  • Computations
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  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Dynamics
  • Feedback
  • Filtration
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  • Engineering

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