15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
ROBUST SPECIFICATION INFLUENCE ON FEEDBACK CONTROL STRATEGIES
Gil-Martínez, M.1 and García-Sanz, M.2
1 System Engineering and Automation Group, Electrical Engineering Department,
University of La Rioja. Luis de Ulloa, 20, 26004 Logroño, SPAIN.
2 Automatic Control and Computer Science Department, Public University of Navarra.
Campus Arrosadía, 31006 Pamplona, SPAIN

The feedback control structures are required in the presence of any kind of uncertainty. The benefits of the feedback are mainly paid with an excessive bandwidth that amplifies the sensor noise, saturating the actuators. This implies the necessity of design trade-offs highly transparent from the Quantitative Feedback Theory. Supposing a given uncertainty for a plant, the set of performance and stability requirements will condition the problem solution. Taking advantage of the QFT bound typology and formulation, the contribution of the robust specification values to their simultaneous achievement will be analysed and particularly as regards the challenging task of the controller design.
Keywords: Robust control, Uncertain dynamical systems, Quantitative Feedback Theory
Session slot T-Th-A21: Posters of Robotics and Robust Control/Area code 2e : Robust Control