Self-Tuning Control with Regularized RLS Algorithm for Vibration Cancellation of a Circular Plate

Abstract

The self-tuning control assumes that the vibrating system is unknown and the controller procedure has the ability to identify the process and to update the necessary control law. Such an algorithm provides the relevant regulator parameters according to the obtained parametric object model. The algorithm can be described as a combination of the following two procedures: the online identification and the computation of the controller parameters. Nearly all of the identification procedures are related to the Least Squares (LS) estimate of a model output. Classified as an ill-posed problem, it implies that the obtained solution is potentially very sensitive to the data perturbations. In order to avoid such problems, the regularized version of the RLS method has been considered in this paper. By solving the linear system of equations with a non-singular Sylvester matrix, the formulas for the unknown coefficients of the considered PID-type controller structure have been obtained. The results of the tests and simulations for the circular plate vibration cancellation have been also included.