A Design Method for Two-Degree-of-Freedom Modified Smith Predictors for Multiple-Input/Multiple-Output Time-Delay Plants

Abstract

The modified Smith predictor is well known as an effective time-delay compensator fora plant with large time-delays, and several papers on the modified Smith predictor have been published.Recently, the parameterization of all stabilizing modified Smith predictors for time-delay plantswas obtained by Yamada et al. But, their method cannot specify the input-output characteristic andthe feedback characteristic separately. From the practical point of view, it is desirable that the inputoutputcharacteristic and the feedback characteristic are specified separately. In this paper, we proposethe parameterization of all stabilizing two-degree-of-freedom modified Smith predictors for multipleinput/multiple-output time-delay plants.