Design of optimal strongly stable digital control systems and application to output feedback control of mechanical systems

A new design method for an optimal digital series compensator is considered that is not produced by an optimal regulator incorporated with a state observer, but employs a new idea that assures total closed system optimality in one design step. However, the compensator so designed is not always stable, i.e. strong stability of the closed-loop system is not always guaranteed. For this case, the authors propose to use the inter-sample response to realize an optimal stable compensator and/or optimal output feedback control system. Especially when the given plant is a linearized mechanical system, such a strongly stable system can always be designed using only output data two samples prior to the current sample regardless of the system order and the parity interlacing property condition.