DC Motor Velocity Control with Integral Retarded Controller Under Unintentional Delay

Abstract

Delay-based controllers have been recently revisited over PID controllers, with promising, analytical tuning formulae and capabilities to effectively control plants with noisy measurements even without low-pass filters. One such controller is the Integral Retarded (IR) controller, which utilizes an intentional delay to reduce actuator chattering against noisy measurements while its integral part achieves zero steady-state error for set-point regulation of Type-0 open-loop systems. However, measurements can be unintentionally delayed in many applications. IR framework for such cases has not been studied in the literature. Here, we provide new, analytical tuning rules of the controller in such cases, as well as validations through simulations and a DC motor speed control hardware experiment.