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Overview of Digital Control Systems

The document discusses digital control systems which use discrete-time signals and digital controllers implemented using computers or microprocessors. Digital control systems involve analog to digital conversion, digital control algorithms, and digital to analog conversion. Some advantages of digital control systems include easy implementation of complex algorithms, low cost, and high noise tolerance while disadvantages include potential degradation from sampling and quantization.

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Overview of Digital Control Systems

The document discusses digital control systems which use discrete-time signals and digital controllers implemented using computers or microprocessors. Digital control systems involve analog to digital conversion, digital control algorithms, and digital to analog conversion. Some advantages of digital control systems include easy implementation of complex algorithms, low cost, and high noise tolerance while disadvantages include potential degradation from sampling and quantization.

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  • Introduction: Introduces the concept of digital control systems by defining digital signals and control systems.
  • Continuous-time vs. Discrete-time: Explains the differences between continuous-time and discrete-time signals with visual illustrations.
  • Analog vs. Digital: Describes analog and digital signals, highlighting differences in signal behavior and representation.
  • Control Systems (1): Discusses objective of control systems, introducing closed-loop stability and disturbances.
  • Control Systems (2): Covers elements of control systems such as mathematical modeling and design methods.
  • Digital Control Systems (1): Focuses on digital control systems explaining the process of converting analog to digital signals.
  • Digital Control Systems (2): Explores a simplified version of digital control systems and related components.
  • Why Digital Control?: Lists benefits of digital control systems such as ease of implementation and noise tolerance.
  • Applications: Provides visual examples of applications for digital control systems in various fields.
  • Disadvantages: Highlights the disadvantages of digital control systems including sampling limitations and power requirements.

Digital Control systems

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

Analog signal Digital signal


Control Systems (1)
reference error control input output
r (t ) e (t ) u (t ) y(t )
System (plant) to be
Controller
+ controlled
-

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
+
-

A/D Converter: change analog signal to digital signal


D/A Converter: change digital signal to analog signal
Digital controller: implemented in digital computers, or in
microprocessors
Digital Control Systems (2)
Simplified version of a digital control systems
ZOH
r (t ) e(t ) Sampler u (t ) y(t )
C( z) Plant
+ T
-

Sampler:

Zero-order hold:

C ( z ) : Discrete-time controller to be designed


Why Digital Control?
• Easy to implement complicated control algorithms
• Easy to modify the controller
• Controller parameters unchanged with variations in
environment
• Low cost, low weight, and low power dissipation
• High noise tolerance
Applications
Disadvantages
• Sampling and quantization process will degrade system
performance
• Software errors
• Need power supply

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