A new approach to digital control implementation of continuous-time systems

Abstract

A transformation method which is based on block-pulse functions (BPF) expansion is proposed. Using this transformation method, an approximate solution of the continuous-time system under consideration can be obtained, and the control laws of the continuous-time system can also be discretized to get digital control algorithms. A case study of a model reference adaptive control system is described and the problem of how to reduce the amount of computations for a high order system is also discussed.<>