• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.31 no.10
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• pp.853-858
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• 2007

In this paper, a seesaw system composed with a moving cart on the rail and seesaw frame is made to demonstrate the effectiveness of the control theory. The control aim is to maintain an equilibrium of seesaw frame in spite of various initial conditions and an allowable disturbance. To solve this control problem, a PI-type state feedback controller using reduced-order observer is implemented and applied to the seesaw system. The reduced-order observer can be used to estimate the state variables in the case of the limit of sensor number or the constraint on setting sensors and the cost. A series of simulation are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the control system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.2353-2363
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• 1994

This paper is concerned with the design of a robust digital controller using reduced-order observer on a robotic manipulator under the disturbance. In most cases of robotic manipulator since all state vectors are not measurable, the unmeasurable state vectors must be estimated or reconstructed. Other problems are caused by the nonlinear element like as nondifferentiable Coulomb friction, disturbance due to the gravitational pull, and the torsional spring effect of a link between the drive motor and the manipulator arm. The controller is based on feeding back the observable variables and the estimated state variables which are generated by the observer, and augmenting the system by additional discrete integrators. The feedback gain parameters are obtained by first applying the optimal control theory and then readjusting the feedback parameters to eliminate the limit cycle by using describing Function for nonlinear hybrid system.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.624-629
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• 2008

This paper presents a scheme for designing a state observer for container cranes. If the system is completely observable with a given set of outputs, then it is possible to determine the states that are not directly measured. We consider the reduced-order states observer with only trolley position detection and with trolley position and container angle detection. The gain matrix of the each state observer is adjusted using a RCGAs. A set of simulation works is carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.58-66
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• 2012

This paper describes a design and a verification of linear state observers for a motorized seat belt system to estimate state information such as angular velocity and load torque. The motorized seat belt system provides functions to protect passengers and improve passenger's convenience. To realize these functions, sensors which can measure an angular velocity and load torque are needed. By use of the linear state observer, state information can be estimated without sensors. The motorized seat belt system is analysed and represented as a state space model which contains load torque as an augmented state. By the developed state space model, a full and reduced order observer are designed and verified by experiments. The full and reduced order observer are also compared from points of view of execution time and noise robustness.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.462-467
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• 2007

The design and synthesis of a state feedback controller assumes the feedback of all state variables of the system. However, some state variables are not physical quantifies so that sensors may not be available, or may be too expensive to measure. Hence, a state observer can be an alternative to estimate unmeasurable state variables. This paper therefore presents a scheme for state observer-based stabilization control of inverted pendulum systems. The feedback gain matrices of both the state feedback controller and the state observer are tuned by real-coded genetic algorithms(RCGAs) such that the given performance indices are minimized. The proposed method is demonstrated through simulations.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.1036-1043
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• 1987

The objective of this paper is to improve the transient response characteristics of hydraulic servosystem via a reduced-order observer which is modelled based upon the nonlinear hydraulic servosystem. The observer is a second order linear model and implemented using a 8 bit micro-computer. The performance of the observer-based hydraulic servosystem was investigated through the hybrid computer simulations and experiments. The result shows that the reduced-order observer can effectively improve the transient response characteristics of hydraulic servosystem.