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Vol: 52(66) No: 3 / September 2007

Design Procedures for Interpolative Blocks used as Controllers with Robustness Properties
Sanda Dale
Department of Automation and Drives, University of Oradea, Faculty of Electric Engineering and Information Technology, Str. Universitatii nr. 1, 410087 Oradea, Romania, phone: 0040-259-408235, e-mail: sdale@uoradea.ro


Keywords: interpolation, interpolative controller, improvements in performance, robustness.

Abstract
Interpolative controllers can replace a large category of controllers in a relative easy manner, bringing the advantage of simplicity (reduced calculus amount, reduced time, easy implementation etc), due to the intrinsic features of interpolation as mathematical operation. Other strong points of the interpolative controllers implemented as interpolation tables (look-up tables) are: 1 - the possibility to design a new controller, with improvable performances, starting from an already existing one; 2 – the possibility to develop a controller with robustness properties in a quite easy way. In the paper, both directions are underlined on a study case.

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Manuscript received July 30, 2007; revised August 28, 2007; accepted for publication September 19, 2007.