Implementation of Optimal Control Techniques on FPGA

Abstract

nowadays, optimal control is an active research sub-area of control and systems engineering because of its applications in different human activities. Literature provides various algorithms for optimal control in various domains. At the same time the process is extremely computational exhaustive. For carrying out this task in real time a system which is really fast is required. Software does not seem to be a suitable candidate for implementing it in real time. We require some technology that has huge amount of parallelism. The high amount of computation power in limited time can be achieved by using FPGA as a platform. The proposed work of this paper is FPAG implementation using techniques of optimal command applied to a DC motor used in a physical pendulum, based on linear algebra and matrix calculation. The proposed implementation of our proposed observer is done using Xilinx System Generator (XSG) which co-simulated on both software/hardware using Simulink and XGS tools.