15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
ROBUST DISTURBANCE SUPPRESSION OF A MAGNETIC LEVITATION SYSTEM WITH INPUT CONSTRAINT
Luca Gentili*,1 Lorenzo Marconi*
* Dipartimento di Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica
University of Bologna - Italy

In this paper the problem of noise suppression for a magnetic levitation system is addressed. The problem is formulated as a nonlinear regulation problem; a state feedback and an error feedback internal model-based regulators are designed, able to offset the noise in spite of the presence of unknown parameters affecting the model of the system. In both cases a saturated control law is designed in order to fulfill physically constraint characterizing the system. Moreover a general result in the context of output regulation of linear systems with constant uncertain parameters affecting the inputs channel and with input constraints is addressed.
Keywords: Nonlinear output regulation, Magnetic levitation system, Small gain theorem, Saturated control

1Corresponding author: DEIS-University of Bologna, Via Risorgimento 2,40136 Bologna-Italy. Tel. ++39.051.2093068, Fax.++39.051.2093073
E-mail: lgentili@deis.unibo.it
Session slot T-Mo-M16: Control of Systems with Input Constraints/Area code 2a : Control Design