15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
A ROBUST OUTPUT FEEDBACK CONTROL LAW FOR MIMO PLANTS
Alberto Cavallo* Ciro Natale*
* Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Seconda Università
degli Studi di Napoli, 81031 Aversa, Italy

In this paper a new robust control strategy for MIMO LTI plants is presented. The proposed approach results in an output feedback and the resulting control system exhibits strong robustness properties. The derivation of the control policy is based on the mathematical machinery of the Singular Perturbation Theory. More specifically, a high order sliding motion is imposed, and a suitable definition of a time-varying sliding manifold allows the controlled plant output to robustly track a prescribed reference trajectory. Simulations are presented considering a classic IFAC benchmark problem, namely a three-input-three-output binary distillation column with an unmatched disturbance and bounded control variables. The results of the simulation show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Keywords: Robust control, Sliding manifold, Output feedback
Session slot T-Fr-A14: Robust Control Design/Area code 2a : Control Design