Stability Analysis of PID Controlled Local Model Networks

This paper addresses closed-loop stability analysis of PID controlled local model networks. The proposed method allows to investigate exponential or asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system. For this purpose a common quadratic Lyapunov function is used as stability criterion. Due to the fact that the Lyapunov approach requires a state-space model a suitable closed-loop state-space system with integration of the controller parameters is introduced. An example demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.