Novel Method on Using Evolutionary Algorithms for PD Optimal Tuning

2011 ◽  
Vol 110-116 ◽  
pp. 4977-4984 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.A. Khoshrooz ◽  
M.A.D. Vahid ◽  
M. Mirshams ◽  
M.R. Homaeinezhad ◽  
A.H. Ahadi

This paper presents a method to solve the Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) problems for optimal tuning of the Proportional-Deferential (PD) controller parameters. The major efficiency of the proposed method is the Genetic Algorithm (GA) stuck avoidance as well an appropriate estimation for GA lower and upper bounds. Also by this method for the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) methodology the initial choice of the controller parameters can be fulfilled to achieve the acceptable performance accuracies. For both GA and PSO methods, the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) obtained trend is used as the reference for the determination of the aforementioned bounds and initial guess. The presented algorithm was applied to regulate a PD controller for the attitude control of a virtual satellite and also with Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) reaction wheels. Heavy burden trying and error was eliminated from the PD controller design which can be mentioned as the important merit of the presented study.

Actuators ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Ádám Szabó ◽  
Tamás Bécsi ◽  
Szilárd Aradi ◽  
Péter Gáspár

The paper presents the modeling and control design of a floating piston pneumatic gearbox actuator using a grid-based Linear Parameter Varying approach. First, the nonlinear model of the pneumatic actuator is presented, then it is transformed into a 6th order Linear Parameter Varying representation with endogenous scheduling parameters. The model is simplified based on empirical considerations to solve the controller synthesis and allow fast controller tuning. The developed Linear Parameter Varying controller is tested in simulations. Moreover, using a balanced truncation-model order reduction method, the minimum order of the controller is determined, which can provide acceptable performance. The simplified controller is implemented in an embedded environment and validated against the real target. Then, the validation results are compared with a gain-scheduled PD controller and a Linear Quadratic Regulator. The results show that by taking the time-varying nature of the scheduling parameters into account, the Linear Parameter Varying controller surpasses the Linear Quadratic Regulator, which cannot handle the high-speed transients around Neutral. Furthermore, the PD controller performs slightly better in two of the four test cases, although the Linear Parameter Varying controller has a higher level of fault tolerance.


Aerospace ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Witold Bużantowicz

A description is given of an application of a linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) for stabilizing the characteristics of an anti-aircraft missile, and an analytical method of selecting the weighting elements of the gain matrix in feedback loop is proposed. A novel method of LQR tuning via a single parameter ς was proposed and tested. The article supplements and develops the topics addressed in the author’s previous work. Its added value includes the observation that the solutions obtained are symmetric pairs, and that the tuning parameter ς proposed for the designed linear-quadratic regulator enables the selection of suitable parameters for the airframe stabilizing loop for the majority of the analytical solutions of the considered Riccati equation.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain G. de Souza ◽  
Luiz C. G. de Souza

The design of the spacecraft Attitude Control System (ACS) becomes more complex when the spacecraft has different type of components like, flexible solar panels, antennas, mechanical manipulators and tanks with fuel. The interaction between the fuel slosh motion, the panel’s flexible motion and the satellite rigid motion during translational and/or rotational manoeuvre can change the spacecraft center of mass position damaging the ACS pointing accuracy. This type of problem can be considered as a Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) where some movable or deformable structure interacts with an internal fluid. This paper develops a mathematical model for a rigid-flexible satellite with tank with fuel. The slosh dynamics is modelled using a common pendulum model and it is considered to be unactuated. The control inputs are defined by a transverse body fixed force and a moment about the centre of mass. A comparative investigation designing the satellite ACS by the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) and Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) methods is done. One has obtained a significant improvement in the satellite ACS performance and robustness of what has been done previously, since it controls the rigid-flexible satellite and the fuel slosh motion, simultaneously.


Author(s):  
Shusheng Zang ◽  
Jaqiang Pan

The design of a modern Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) is described for a test steam injected gas turbine (STIG) unit. The LQR controller is obtained by using the fuel flow rate and the injected steam flow rate as the output parameters. To meet the goal of the shaft speed control, a classical Proportional Differential (PD) controller is compared to the LQR controller design. The control performance of the dynamic response of the STIG plant in the case of rejection of load is evaluated. The results of the computer simulation show a remarkable improvement on the dynamic performance of the STIG unit.


Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 477 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Augusti Lindiya ◽  
N. Subashini ◽  
K. Vijayarekha

Single Inductor (SI) converters with the advantage of using one inductor for any number of inputs/outputs find wide applications in portable electronic gadgets and electrical vehicles. SI converters can be used in Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO) and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) configurations but they need controllers to achieve good transient and steady state responses, to improve the stability against load and line disturbances and to reduce cross regulation. Cross regulation is the change in an output voltage due to change in the load current at another output and it is an added constraint in SI converters. In this paper, Single Input Dual Output (SIDO) and Dual Input Dual Output (DIDO) converters with applications capable of handling high load current working in Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM) of operation are taken under study. Conventional multivariable PID and optimal Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) controllers are developed and their performances are compared for the above configurations to meet the desired objectives. Generalized mathematical models for SIMO and MIMO are developed and a Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to find the parameters of a multivariable PID controller and the weighting matrices of optimal LQR where the objective function includes cross regulation as a constraint. The simulated responses reveal that LQR controller performs well for both the systems over multivariable PID controller and they are validated by hardware prototype model with the help of DT9834® Data Acquisition Module (DAQ). The methodologies used here generate a fresh dimension for the case of such converters in practical applications.


2015 ◽  
Vol 76 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadzilah Hashim ◽  
Mohd Yusoff Mashor ◽  
Siti Maryam Sharun

This paper presents a study on the estimator based on Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) control scheme for Innovative Satellite (InnoSAT). By using LQR control scheme, the controller and the estimator has been derived for state space form in all three axes to stabilize the system’s performance. This study starts by converting the transfer functions of attitude control into state space form.  Then, the step continues by finding the best value of weighting matrices of LQR in order to obtain the best value of controller gain, K. After that, the best value of L is obtained for the estimator gain. The value of K and L is combined in forming full order compensator and in the same time the reduced order compensator is also formed. Lastly, the performance of full order compensator is compared to reduced order compensator. From the simulation, results indicate that both types of estimators have presented good stability and tracking performance. However, reduced order estimator has simpler equation and faster convergence to zero than the full order estimator. This property is very important in developing a satellite attitude control for real-time implementation.


Author(s):  
Soukaina Krafes ◽  
Zakaria Chalh ◽  
Abdelmjid Saka

This paper presents a Backstepping controller for five degrees of freedom Spherical Inverted Pendulum. Since the system is nonlinear, unstable, underactuated and MIMO and has a nonsquare form, the classic control design cannot be applied to control it. In order to remedy this problem, we propose in this paper a new method based on hierarchical steps of the Backstepping controller taking into a count the nonlinearities that cannot be neglected. Furthermore, a Linear Quadratic Regulator controller and LQR + PID based on the linearized system model are also designed for performance comparison. Finally, a simulation study is carried out to prove the effectiveness of proposed control scheme and is validated using the virtual reality environment that proves the performance of the Backstepping controller over the linear ones where it brings the pendulum from any initial condition in the upper hemisphere while the base is brought to the origin of the coordinates.


2011 ◽  
Vol 63-64 ◽  
pp. 533-536
Author(s):  
Xiao Jun Xing ◽  
Jian Guo Yan

With the purpose of overcoming the defect that unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are easily disturbed by air current and tend to be unstable, an augmented-stability controller was developed for a certain UAV’s longitudinal motion. According to requirements of short-period damping ratio and control anticipation parameter (CAP) in flight quality specifications of GJB185-86 and C*, linear quadratic regulator (LQR) theory was used in the augmented-stability controller’s design. The simulation results show that the augmented-stability controller not only improves the UAV’s stability and dynamic characteristics but also enhances the UAV’s robustness.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Dentis ◽  
Elisa Capello ◽  
Giorgio Guglieri

The purpose of this paper is the design of guidance and control algorithms for orbital space maneuvers. A 6-dof orbital simulator, based on Clohessy-Wiltshire-Hill equations, is developed in C language, considering cold gas reaction thrusters and reaction wheels as actuation system. The computational limitations of on-board computers are also included. A combination of guidance and control algorithms for an orbital maneuver is proposed: (i) a suitably designed Zero-Effort-Miss/Zero-Effort-Velocity (ZEM/ZEV) algorithm is adopted for the guidance and (ii) a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) is used for the attitude control. The proposed approach is verified for different cases, including external environment disturbances and errors on the actuation system.


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