On the achievable delay margin using LTI control for unstable plants

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1194-1207

  Middleton, Richard H ^a   Miller, Daniel E ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Delay margin; Frequency domain; Linear systems; Time delay

Indexed keywords

DELAY MARGIN; LINEAR TIME-INVARIANT CONTROL;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; TIME DELAY;

LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547135945     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2007.900824     Document Type: Article

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