LQG control of a high redundancy actuator

Abstract

A high redundancy actuator, comprising a relatively large number of actuation elements, is being developed for safety critical applications. Some classical control results have previously been reported and this paper will focus on evaluation of the LQG control design. Three different design approaches will be presented and compared under different types of typical faults in the sub-actuation elements. Overall a LQG design using a physically motivated reduced order model appears to be the best approach.