YAMAZAKI Takeru, a second-year doctoral student in the Electrical Engineering Program at the Graduate School of Science and Technology won the Research Group Encouragement Award in the Electronics, Information, and Systems Division of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan in 2024. This award was presented to YAMAZAKI for his research results “Predictive Functional Control Using Linear Active Disturbance Removal Controller (LADRC)” presented in June 2024 at the Joint Committee on Systems and Control of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (joint authorship: ISHIDA Yoshihisa, Professor Emeritus, and MURAKAMI Takahiro, Dedicated Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Bioinformatics, School of Science and Technology).
This research was conducted in cooperation with SMC Corporation, with the aim of accurately controlling motors and other drive devices used in factories regardless of the operating environment. YAMAZAKI presented the results of the research group on the improvement of problems in Predictive Functional Control (PFC), which is known as a control method with few adjustment parameters. For PFC, it is necessary to know the characteristics of the controlled object in advance, but the characteristics of the controlled object change as the operating environment changes. In his research, YAMAZAKI revealed that this problem can be solved by using a linear active disturbance rejection control (LADRC), which can approximate the system, including the target of control with unknown characteristics, to a multiple integrator. The effectiveness of this controller has been demonstrated through computer simulations and experiments using real equipment.
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