Valeur de consigneIn cybernetics and control theory, a setpoint (SP; also set point) is the desired or target value for an essential variable, or process value (PV) of a control system, which may differ from the actual measured value of the variable. Departure of such a variable from its setpoint is one basis for error-controlled regulation using negative feedback for automatic control. Cruise control The SP-PV error can be used to return a system to its norm.
Signal-flow graphA signal-flow graph or signal-flowgraph (SFG), invented by Claude Shannon, but often called a Mason graph after Samuel Jefferson Mason who coined the term, is a specialized flow graph, a directed graph in which nodes represent system variables, and branches (edges, arcs, or arrows) represent functional connections between pairs of nodes. Thus, signal-flow graph theory builds on that of directed graphs (also called digraphs), which includes as well that of oriented graphs.
Diagramme de BodeLe diagramme de Bode est un moyen de représenter la réponse en fréquence d'un système, notamment électronique. Hendrik Wade Bode, des Laboratoires Bell, a proposé ce diagramme pour l'étude graphique simple d'un asservissement et de la contre-réaction dans un dispositif électronique. Il permet de visualiser rapidement la marge de gain, la marge de phase, le gain continu, la bande passante, le rejet des perturbations et la stabilité des systèmes à partir de la fonction de transfert.
Bus de terrainLe terme bus de terrain est utilisé par opposition au bus informatique. En effet, le bus de terrain est en général beaucoup plus simple, du fait des faibles ressources numériques embarquées dans les capteurs et actionneurs industriels. Il est également plus robuste face aux perturbations externes. Normalisé en tant que CEI 61158, un système industriel automatisé complexe tel que la chaîne de montage industrielle a généralement besoin d'une hiérarchie organisée de systèmes de contrôle pour fonctionner.
Algebraic Riccati equationAn algebraic Riccati equation is a type of nonlinear equation that arises in the context of infinite-horizon optimal control problems in continuous time or discrete time. A typical algebraic Riccati equation is similar to one of the following: the continuous time algebraic Riccati equation (CARE): or the discrete time algebraic Riccati equation (DARE): P is the unknown n by n symmetric matrix and A, B, Q, R are known real coefficient matrices.
BacksteppingIn control theory, backstepping is a technique developed circa 1990 by Petar V. Kokotovic and others for designing stabilizing controls for a special class of nonlinear dynamical systems. These systems are built from subsystems that radiate out from an irreducible subsystem that can be stabilized using some other method. Because of this recursive structure, the designer can start the design process at the known-stable system and "back out" new controllers that progressively stabilize each outer subsystem.
Perceptual control theoryPerceptual control theory (PCT) is a model of behavior based on the properties of negative feedback control loops. A control loop maintains a sensed variable at or near a reference value by means of the effects of its outputs upon that variable, as mediated by physical properties of the environment. In engineering control theory, reference values are set by a user outside the system. An example is a thermostat. In a living organism, reference values for controlled perceptual variables are endogenously maintained.
Critère de Nyquistvignette|droite|Diagramme de Nyquist de la fonction de transfert . Le critère de stabilité de Nyquist est une règle graphique utilisée en automatique et en théorie de la stabilité, qui permet de déterminer si un système dynamique est stable. Il a été formulé indépendamment par deux électrotechniciens : l'Allemand Felix Strecker de Siemens en 1930 et l'Américain Harry Nyquist des Laboratoires Bell en 1932.
Stochastic controlStochastic control or stochastic optimal control is a sub field of control theory that deals with the existence of uncertainty either in observations or in the noise that drives the evolution of the system. The system designer assumes, in a Bayesian probability-driven fashion, that random noise with known probability distribution affects the evolution and observation of the state variables. Stochastic control aims to design the time path of the controlled variables that performs the desired control task with minimum cost, somehow defined, despite the presence of this noise.
Transformation en ZLa transformation en Z est un outil mathématique de l'automatique et du traitement du signal, qui est l'équivalent discret de la transformation de Laplace. Elle transforme un signal réel du domaine temporel en un signal représenté par une série complexe et appelé transformée en Z. Elle est utilisée entre autres pour le calcul de filtres numériques à réponse impulsionnelle infinie et en automatique pour modéliser des systèmes dynamiques de manière discrète.
