Speed Analysis of a Digital Controller in Time Critical Applications

Traditionally, control algorithms are designed without a consideration of their real-time implementation details. The performance of a digital control system, besides the sampling period, depends on many variables, such as the control loop execution time, jitter, complexity of the control algorithm etc. In this paper attention is focused on the inter-action of the parameters of the scheduled tasks and on the performance of control loops closed with digital controller. A design approach that is based on the relative speed classification of the control system has been proposed. The approach is illustrated by the analysis of control systems developed for laboratory magnetic levitation process.