REGULATED CONTROL WITH OBSERVERS

• For a regulated system the control output ’u’ can be estimated using the desired system state.

• The system state is often difficult to measure directly, so an estimator can be used. .

• A regulator can use an estimate of the system state to

• The estimators and regulators can be designed separately and then combined. This is the separation principle.

• The simplified block diagram for the system is,

• The compensator,

• This can be converted to a transfer function for the regulator.

• The system can also be set up for a compensator by assuming the setpoint input is not zero,

• Consider an example of a regulator/estimator design,

• This system can be implemented with a C program as shown below,