Design of a Data-Oriented PID controller for a Two Degree of Freedom Control System

Abstract Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning (VRFT) and Fictitious Reference Iterative Tuning (FRIT) are the data-oriented tuning schemes for directly designing feedback controllers. In these schemes, controller parameters are tuned to achieve the desired response without any system identifications. Furthermore, these schemes have been extended to the two-degree of freedom (2DOF) control systems in recent years. The conventional design schemes of 2DOF controllers are a two-step tuning method. The first step is to design a feedback controller to satisfy the desired disturbance response. The second step is to tune the feed-forward controller parameters to achieve the desired reference response. Consider these methods are complicated, this paper provides a one-step tuning scheme for a 2DOF control system based on data-oriented method. According to the proposed scheme, the reference of the complementary sensitivity function is introduced, and the least squares method can be applied to calculate the optimal controller parameters. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified by using a numerical example.