An automatic tuning methodology for a unified dead-time compensator

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-22

  Normey Rico, Julio E ^a   Sartori, Rafael ^a   Veronesi, Massimiliano ^b   Visioli, Antonio ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b Innovet Italia Srl   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic tuning; Dead time compensators; Performance assessment; Robustness; Smith predictor

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

AUTOMATIC TUNING; DEAD-TIME COMPENSATORS; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; LOAD DISTURBANCES; MEASUREMENT NOISE; MODIFIED SMITH PREDICTOR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SMITH PREDICTORS;

TUNING;

EID: 84898614068     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2014.02.001     Document Type: Article

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