Application of four control strategies to high-speed independent drive systems

Abstract This paper examines the application and limitations of a number of control strategies for high-speed independent drive systems, where event cycles are measured in 10's of milliseconds. The controllers examined include Proportional Integral and Derivative (PID) with Velocity Feed-Forward (VFF), the standard industrial control algorithm for this application, H∞-norm optimisation, set-point gain scheduling, and a self-tuning regulator. All controllers were tested on industrial design examples implemented on the Drives Test Facility at Aston University.