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Automatica

Volume 34, Issue 6, June 1998, Pages 715-722
Automatica

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Approximate I/O Feedback Linearization of Discrete-Time Non-Linear Systems via Virtual Input Direct Design

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Abstract

The design of linearizing compensators via output-feedback for discrete-time non-linear plants, using I/O measurements only, is typically performed in an indirect way by identifying first a non-linear model of the plant, and resorting then to a suitable model-based design technique. In this paper we propose the use of a new method, based on a virtual input direct design (VID2) approach. The main feature of such a method is to carry the control design into a standard non-linear mapping approximation problem, thus avoiding any preliminary plant-identification phase. As compared with the existing methods, the new one requires less computational effort, while taking full advantage of the non-linear approximation software tools already available. In this paper, the new method is described, and some theoretical results are given, concerning the I/O linearization of discrete-time systems via dynamic output feedback.

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This paper was not presented at any IFAC meeting. This paper was recommended for publication in revised from by Associate Editor Henk Nijmeijer under the direction of Editor Tamer Baz̧ar.

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