Abstract
The paper describes a new class of discrete data control systems in which a portion of the system makes use of pulse frequency modulation. This concept arose as an abstraction from the study of neural communication links in physiological control systems. An integral pulse frequency modulator is defined as one which emits a standard pulse whenever the integral of the input variable reaches a threshold value. The frequency of the output pulse train varies in a linear manner with the input magnitude. Modulators producing pulse trains of one or two signs are introduced and approximate frequency characteristics are obtained; they have discontinuous and discrete features, and depend upon signal amplitude, frequency, and initial phase angle. Feedback control systems making use of single-signed modulators in two parallel feedforward paths are described, and some of the unique stability considerations are studied. Continuous systems that approximate these stable discrete-data systems are constructed, and their transient properties considered.
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