Design of an Optical Path Scanning Control System in a Portable Fourier Transform Spectrometer Based on Adaptive Feedforward–Nonlinear Proportional-Integral Cascade Composite Control

Abstract

In order to obtain highly accurate infrared spectra, the optical path scanning control system in a portable Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) must be able to realize highly stable reciprocal scanning. To address the positional localization and speed fluctuation problems of optical path scanning control systems, an adaptive feedforward–nonlinear PI cascade composite control algorithm (AF-NLPI) is proposed. A physical model of an optical path scanning control system is established. Moreover, an adaptive feedforward compensator using a dynamic forgetting factor is proposed, and it was combined with a nonlinear PI cascade controller to form a composite controller. The control parameters were tuned using the atomic orbital search algorithm. Further, the simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the AF-NLPI can effectively improve the control accuracy and anti-interference ability of an optical path scanning control system in a portable FTS with high feasibility and practicality. By setting the scanning stroke of the system to 8 mm and scanning at 10 mm/s, the stability of the optical scanning speed reached 99.47% when controlled by the controller proposed in this paper, thus fulfilling the motion requirements for optical path scanning control systems.