Sensor Optimisation via H∞ Applied to a MAGLEV Suspension System

In this paper a systematic method via H∞ control design is proposed to select a sensor set that satisfies a number of input criteria for a MAGLEV suspension system. The proposed method recovers a number of optimised controllers for each possible sensor set that satisfies the performance and constraint criteria using evolutionary algorithms.

Authors:

• Konstantinos Michail
• Argyrios Zolotas
• Roger Goodall
• John Pearson

Keywords:

• H-infinity
• Sensor optimisation
• Genetic algorithms
• MAGLEV vehicles

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