PID Gain Tuning for Robust Control of PMDC Motor for External Disturbance Rejection with Constrained Motor Parameter Variations through H∞

Abstract

This chapter describes the controller modeling for PID gain tuning against the external disturbances with constrained internal parameter variation of the PMDC motor based on an optimization technique of H-infinity. To fit the goals in the H infinite framework, auto tuning of the PID controller gains is used. Different performance goals for tracking are preset as design objectives. Researchers in literature have presented many Robust Control techniques for motor control applications. Methods like back-stepping algorithms, fuzzy and neural based control systems, model predictive control and SMC (Sliding Mode Control) are available in literature. In this chapter, SC (speed control) of PMDC-motor is addressed with variations in outer load disturbances and internal variations of the system parameters for a particular application. C-PID (conventional PID controllers) is preferred, and equivalent robustness characteristics are established using the H-infinity development procedures. The optimization effort is to get simultaneous fast-tracking response and better disturbance rejection.