Time maximum disturbance switch curve and isochrones of linear second-order systems with numerator dynamics (Q5952979)

The paper deals with a dynamic system, the transfer function of which is given by the following expression: \[ G(s)={\omega^{2}_{n} \over \beta} {s+\beta \over s^{2}+2 \zeta \omega_{n}s + \omega^{2}_{n}}.\tag{*} \] In order to perform disturbance attenuation in the above system, the values of the parameters \(\omega_{n}\), \(\zeta\) and \(\beta\) may be suitably selected. So far as concerns the system (*), the usual goal of controller synthesis is to achieve balance between dynamic performance and disturbance attenuation. Here, the attention is concentrated on to what extent the disturbance can influence a stable system (*). The main subject of the research contained in the paper is to provide the disturbance function in a form that readily enables testing the stabilized system robustness. Moreover, the results of an analysis performed provide a way to illustrate how disturbance attenuation can be obtained by selecting the values of the parameters: \(\zeta\) (damping coefficient) and \(\omega\) (natural frequency). In particular, the results of the paper are applied to a problem dealing with the dynamics of a helicopter with rotating blades. The paper is really practical.