Efficient disturbance rejection of gimbaled inertial stabilization platform via relay controller

Abstract

In this article a relay controller is introduced in the simple motor driven gimbaled inertial stabilization platform (ISP) to improve disturbance rejection capacity. This improvement is possible through the manipulation of the adaptive feature of a limit cycle inherent in relay control systems. We present the sufficient condition for the existence of a limit cycle and its stability analysis in the relay control system, along with how this limit cycle can suppress the exogenous torque disturbance efficiently even in the presence of randomly distributed exogenous inputs. As a disturbance rejection measure, line-of-sight stabilization accuracy was obtained with an ISP driven by a typical linear controller and one by a relay controller, respectively. The results of numerical examples show the effectiveness and efficiency of the relay controller over a typical linear controller.