Robust Nondiagonal Controller Design for Uncertain Multivariable Regulating Systems

1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Franchek ◽  
P. Herman ◽  
O. D. I. Nwokah

Presented in this paper is a robust controller design methodology for a class of uncertain, multivariable, regulating systems required to maintain a prespecified operating condition within hard time domain tolerances despite a vector of step disturbances. The design methodology is a frequency domain approach and is based on sequential loop design where a Gauss elimination technique facilitates the various design steps. The specific class of systems addressed are those which can be modeled as square, multivariable systems with parametric uncertainty. One restriction imposed is that the system and its inverse are stable for all plant parameter combinations. The key features of this design methodology include (i) the design of a fully populated controller matrix, (ii) the ability to design for system integrity, and (iii) the direct enforcement of hard time domain tolerances through frequency domain amplitude inequalities.

Author(s):  
David McCann ◽  
Keith Anderson ◽  
Thomas S. Taylor ◽  
Patrick O’Brien

This paper details work that was conducted during the retrieval and subsequent re-installation of the Banff riser system between September 2000 and March 2001. Originally, deterministic methods were used to design the riser system. It is demonstrated that these methods may not be conservative when compared against stochastic techniques. To ensure a conservative design methodology it is necessary to fully account for the inherent dynamic frequency content of the riser. This is usually achieved using non-linear time domain irregular sea techniques. Time domain irregular sea analysis is computationally expensive in terms of resources and time. This paper presents the results of an alternative method of solution based on the frequency domain approach. Excellent agreement between the results of the time and frequency domain is observed.


Author(s):  
Pol D. Spanos ◽  
Rupak Ghosh ◽  
Lyle D. Finn ◽  
Fikry Botros ◽  
John Halkyard

The response of a combined Spar/ risers/mooring lines system is conventionally determined by conducting nonlinear time domain analysis. The system nonlinearity is introduced by the mooring nonlinear force, the friction between the buoyancy-can and the preloaded compliant guide, and the quadratic model of the fluid related damping. Obviously, during the design process, it is important to understand the sensitivity of the Spar responses to various parameters. To a great extent, these objectives cannot be readily achieved by using time domain analysis since, in this context, elements with frequency dependent representation such as the added masses and supplementary damping must be incorporated in the analysis; this may require the use of elaborate convolution techniques. This attribute of the time domain solution combined with the necessity of running a significant number of simulations makes it desirable to develop alternative methods of analysis. In the present paper, a frequency domain approach based on the method of the statistical linearization is used for conducting readily a parametric study of the combined Spar system. This method allows one to account by an equivalent linear damping and an equivalent linear stiffness for the mooring nonlinearity, friction nonlinearity, and the damping nonlinearity of the system. Further, frequency dependent inertia and radiation damping terms in the equations of motion are accommodated. This formulation leads to a mathematical model for the combined system, which involves five-by-five mass, damping and stiffness matrices. In the solution procedure, the equivalent parameters of the linear system are refined in an iterative manner, and by relying on an optimization criterion. This procedure is used to assess the sensitivity of representative Spar system responses to various design parameters. Further, the effect of various design parameters on the combined system response is examined. The environmental loadings considered are of the JONSWAP format of a 100-yr hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.


2021 ◽  
Vol 926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akhil Nekkanti ◽  
Oliver T. Schmidt

Four different applications of spectral proper orthogonal decomposition (SPOD) are demonstrated on large-eddy simulation data of a turbulent jet. These are: low-rank reconstruction, denoising, frequency–time analysis and prewhitening. We demonstrate SPOD-based flow-field reconstruction using direct inversion of the SPOD algorithm (frequency-domain approach) and propose an alternative approach based on projection of the time series data onto the modes (time-domain approach). We further present a SPOD-based denoising strategy that is based on hard thresholding of the SPOD eigenvalues. The proposed strategy achieves significant noise reduction while facilitating drastic data compression. In contrast to standard methods of frequency–time analysis such as wavelet transform, a proposed SPOD-based approach yields a spectrogram that characterises the temporal evolution of spatially coherent flow structures. A convolution-based strategy is proposed to compute the time-continuous expansion coefficients. When applied to the turbulent jet data, SPOD-based frequency–time analysis reveals that the intermittent occurrence of large-scale coherent structures is directly associated with high-energy events. This work suggests that the time-domain approach is preferable for low-rank reconstruction of individual snapshots, and the frequency-domain approach for denoising and frequency–time analysis.


Author(s):  
Ying Min Low ◽  
Robin S. Langley

The dynamic analysis of a deepwater floating platform and the associated mooring/riser system should ideally be fully coupled to ensure a reliable response prediction. It is generally held that a time domain analysis is the only means of capturing the various coupling and nonlinear effects accurately. However, in recent work it has been found that for an ultra-deepwater floating system (2000m water depth), the highly efficient frequency domain approach can provide highly accurate response predictions. One reason for this is the accuracy of the drag linearization procedure over both first and second order motions, another reason is the minimal geometric nonlinearity displayed by the mooring lines in deepwater. In this paper, the aim is to develop an efficient analysis method for intermediate water depths, where both mooring/vessel coupling and geometric nonlinearity are of importance. It is found that the standard frequency domain approach is not so accurate for this case and two alternative methods are investigated. In the first, an enhanced frequency domain approach is adopted, in which line nonlinearities are linearized in a systematic way. In the second, a hybrid approach is adopted in which the low frequency motion is solved in the time domain while the high frequency motion is solved in the frequency domain; the two analyses are coupled by the fact that (i) the low frequency motion affects the mooring line geometry for the high frequency motion, and (ii) the high frequency motion affects the drag forces which damp the low frequency motion. The accuracy and efficiency of each of the methods are systematically compared.


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 523-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert van der Weijst ◽  
Bas van Loon ◽  
Marcel Heertjes ◽  
Maurice Heemels

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