Passivity-based PI control of first-order systems with I/O communication delays: A complete sigma-stability analysis
For control engineers, it offers a complete stability analysis and explicit tuning rules for delayed first-order passive systems, though the problem is well-studied and the approach is incremental.
This paper revisits PI control of first-order passive systems with communication delays, using sigma-stability to analytically determine the maximum exponential decay rate and provide explicit PI tuning formulas.
The PI control of first-order linear passive systems through a delayed communication channel is revisited in light of the relative stability concept called sigma-stability. Treating the delayed communication channel as a transport PDE, the passivity of the overall control-loop is guaranteed, resulting in a closed-loop system of neutral nature. Spectral methods are then applied to the system to obtain a complete stability map. In particular, we perform the D-subdivision method to declare the exact sigma-stability regions in the space of PI parameters. This framework is then utilized to analytically determine the maximum achievable exponential decay rate of the system while achieving the PI tuning as an explicit function of the decay rate and the system parameters.