Design and Practical Application of Simple Robust Controllers: A Parametric Approach

The contribution is focused on brief description of proposed control design process and primarily on practical application of obtained simple robust control algorithms. The synthesis is based on general solutions of Diophantine equations in the ring of proper and stable rational functions, Youla-Kučera parameterization and divisibility conditions and one of its main advantages can be seen in existence of single scalar tuning parameter. The real-time control behaviour has been tested on laboratory model of hot-air tunnel which has been mathematically described by various transfer functions containing parametric type of uncertainty.