Low-Hump Sensitivity Control Design for Hard Disk Drive Systems 137
7.3 Design in continuous-time do main
7.3.1 H
∞
loop shaping for l ow-hump sensitiv ity functions
The H
∞
loop shaping method is u sed to design controllers for the primary actuator
and the microactuator to achieve a low-hump sensitivity fu nction for the du al -stage
actuator system. The structure of the H
∞
loop shaping method is depicted i n Figure
7.4, where W (s) is a weighting function of the desired sensitivity function. For
a plant model P (s), a controller C(s) is to be designed such that the closed-loop
system is stable and
kT
zw
k
∞
< 1 (7.5)
is satisfied, where T
zw
is the transfer function from w to z, i.e., S(s)W (s). Cl early,
(7.5) means that the sensitivity function S(s) can be shaped similarly to the inverse
of the chosen weighing function W (s). A simple form of W (s) is
W (s) =
1
M
s
2
+ 2ωζ
1
√
M
s + ω
2
s
2
+ 2ω
√
εs + ω
2
ε
, (7.6)
where ω is valued by the desired bandwidth, ε is to determine the low-frequency
level of the desired sensitivity function, and ζ is the damping ratio.
Associated with the weighting function, Fi gure 7.4 can b e fo rmulated as foll ows.
˙x(t) = Ax(t) + B
1
w(t) + B
2
u(t), (7. 7)
z(t) = C
1
x(t) + D
11
w(t) + D
12
u(t), (7.8)
y(t) = C
2
x(t) + D
21
w(t) + D
22
u(t), (7.9)
where
A =
A
p
0
B
w
C
p
A
w
, B
1
=
0
B
w
, B
2
=
B
p
B
w
D
p
,
C
1
=
D
w
C
p
C
w
, D
11
= D
w
, D
12
= D
w
D
p
,
C
2
=
C
p
0
, D
21
= 1, D
22
= D
p
,
(A
p
, B
p
, C
p
, D
p
) and (A
w
, B
w
, C
w
, D
w
) are respectively the state-space realiza-
tions of plant P (s) and weighting function W (s). Let (A
c
, B
c
, C
c
, D
c
) be the state
space description of C(s). Then (A
c
, B
c
, C
c
, D
c
) is to be designed such that (7.5)
is satisfied. An LMI approach stated in Theorem 5.4 is used to design the controller.
It is known that MATLAB functions, say “hinfsyn.m,” are available to design
the controller. However, numerical errors will occur due to the large g ai n of VCM
actuator and will be the hindrance for running the function. Thus, we would rather
use the LMI approach in our application t o the VCM actuator. There always exists
a minimum l evel γ that makes the LMI (5.99) solvable, which gives a sensitivity