Mixed H2/H-infinity Data-Driven Control Design for Hard Disk Drives

TL;DR

This paper presents a frequency-based data-driven control method using mixed H2/H-infinity objectives for HDDs, enabling robust control without explicit plant modeling by directly utilizing frequency response data.

Contribution

It introduces a novel convex optimization approach for mixed H2/H-infinity control design directly from frequency response measurements, applied to dual-stage HDD track following.

Findings

Effective control design without explicit plant models

Robust stability and performance guaranteed via convex optimization

Improved HDD track following performance

Abstract

A frequency based data-driven control design considering mixed H2/H-infinity control objectives is developed for multiple input-single output systems. The main advantage of the data-driven control over the model-based control is its ability to use the frequency response measurements of the controlled plant directly without the need to identify a model for the plant. In the proposed methodology, multiple sets of measurements can be considered in the design process to accommodate variations in the system dynamics. The controller is obtained by translating the mixed H2/H-infinity control objectives into a convex optimization problem. The H-infinity norm is used to shape closed loop transfer functions and guarantee closed loop stability, while the H2 norm is used to constrain and/or minimize the variance of signals in the time domain. The proposed data-driven design methodology is used to design a track following controller for a dual-stage HDD. The sensitivity decoupling structure[16] is considered as the controller structure. The compensators inside this controller structure are designed and compared by decoupling the system into two single input-single-output systems as well as solving for a single input-double output controller.