Control of Cross-Directional Systems with Approximate Symmetries
Structural symmetries of linear dynamical systems can be exploited for decoupling the dynamics and reducing the computational complexity of the controller implementation. However, in practical applications, inexact structural symmetries undermine the ability to decouple the system, resulting in the loss of any potential complexity reduction. To address this, we propose substituting an approximation with exact structural symmetries for the original system model, thereby introducing an approximation error. We focus on internal model controllers for cross-directional systems encountered in large-scale and high-speed control problems of synchrotrons or the process industry and characterise the stability, performance, and robustness properties of the resulting closed loop. While existing approaches replace the original system model with one that minimises the Frobenius norm of the approximation error, we show that this can lead to instability or poor performance. Instead, we propose approximations that are obtained from semidefinite programming problems. We show that our proposed approximations can yield stable systems even when the Frobenius norm approximation does not. The paper concludes with numerical examples and a case study of a synchrotron light source with inexact structural symmetries. Exploiting structural symmetries in large-scale and high-speed systems enables faster sampling times and the use of more advanced control techniques, even when the symmetries are approximate.
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