DIRECT CONTROLLER DESIGN AND ITERATIVE TUNING APPLIED TO THE COUPLED DRIVES APPARATUS

František Gazdoš - Petr Dostál

   The paper utilizes the direct method Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning (VRFT) for the iterative way of controller design and fine- tuning. In the work, a series of experiments with no restriction on data generation is used to design an optimal controller of desired structure without the intermediate plant identification step. The approach is shown to be successful for the design and fine-tuning of a controller for the electric device - coupled drives apparatus by means of adjusting a desired settling-time of the controlled output.

Keywords: controller tuning, iterative approach, direct methods, virtual reference feedback tuning, coupled drives apparatus

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