Digital Control System
Digital Control System
Tanagorn Jennawasin
Department of Electrical Engineering
Introduction
Digital control systems
= “Digital signals”+”Control systems”
Continuous-time vs. Discrete-time
• Continuous-time signals
- defined over a continuous range of time
• Discrete-time signals
- defined only at discrete instants of time
- can be considered as a sequence of discrete values
CT signal DT signal
Analog vs. Digital
• Analog signals
- continuous in both time and values
• Digital signals
- discrete-time signals with quantized values or finite-
precision values
Objective:
1) Closed-loop stable
2) Small steady-state error
3) Good transient response
4) Disturbance rejection
Control Systems (2)
• Mathematical modeling
- Transfer functions or state-space representations
• Controller structure
- e.g. PID controllers, 1-st order controllers
• Design methods
- Root locus, Nyquist or Bode plots, pole placement,
etc.
Digital Control Systems (1)
reference error output
Digital
A/D controller
D/A Plant
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Sampler:
Zero-order hold: