12
Two-Dimensional H
2
Control for Error
Minimization
12.1 Introduction
The H
2
optimal control for 1-D systems is a cl assical problem in linear systems
theory. Its objective is to minimize the error energy of the system when the system is
subject to a un it impulse inp ut or, equivalently, a white noise input of unit variance.
Because of thi s analytically and p ractically meaning ful specification, the H
2
problem
and solution has been well studied and applied for several decades. Recently, the
H
2
control pro blem has been studied for 2-D syst ems and a sufficient condition for
the evaluation of 2-D system H
2
performance in terms of LMIs is derived [1 39].
Using the condition, a systematic method for the design of the H
2
controller for 2-
D systems in terms of LMIs has been developed. The developed 2-D H
2
control
design method is of great importance to those systems that have 2-D behavior and
can be modeled using 2-D linear system models. Self-servo track writer (SSTW)
for data storage devices is one of these systems [17]. In the self-servo tr ack wri ting,
due to vibrations and noise the servo controll er causes the actuator to follow the
resulting non-circular trajectory in the next burst writing step, so that the new bursts
are written at locations reflecting the errors present in the preceding track via the
closed-loo p response of the servo loop, as well as in th e present track. Consequently,
each step in the process carries a “memory” of all p receding track shape errors.
This “memory” depends on the particular closed-loop response of the servo loop.
Because of the interdependency of propagation tracks, track shape errors may be
amplified from one track to the next through the closed-loop response when writing
the propagation tracks. Thus self-servo writing systems must provide a means of
accurately writing servo-patterns while controlling the propagation of track shape
errors. Therefore, error propagation contain ment is critically important. The target
of preventing error propagation is to reject the track shape error due to track non-
circularity recorded in propagated tracks so that th e circul ar concentric tracks are
achieved in every propagation trace.
In this chapter we describe the SSTW process with a two-dimensional (2-D) model.
Then the error propagation containment problem of the SSTW process is formulated
as a 2-D stabilization problem. Instead of the conventional f eedforw ard con trol, the
2-D stabilizing control is able to prevent the error propagation. Furthermore, the
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