A stable multimodel scheme control for the regulation of the transient behavior of a tunnel-diode trigger circuit

ISA Trans. 2007 Jun;46(3):313-26. doi: 10.1016/j.isatra.2007.02.003. Epub 2007 Apr 17.

Abstract

A multimodel scheme is designed for a triggering tunnel-diode circuit. The scheme improves the transient behavior during the transition time period after switching from a stable system equilibrium point to another one which is known as a triggering process. Each model is obtained by a linearization of the circuit near an equilibrium point. Moreover, each of these models can be described as a combination of two other transfer functions describing the linearized plant behavior near two different equilibrium points. The scheme chooses online the model with the best tracking performance in order to generate the control law. Different reference transfer functions are proposed with the aim of generating the desired transient in the triggering process. Some simulations show the usefulness of this scheme.