Control Time Shifts

08/22/17

“Can we have built-in time delays into control systems?”

 

When working with control systems, sometimes we don’t want all actions to occur instantaneously. For example, we might want to have an elevator door wait to close a few seconds after everyone has entered. This can be modeled as a time shift within the system. A time shift for a function in the time domain can be represented by f(t) = x(t-tau) where tau is the time constant and in the Laplace domain by the equation f(s) = e^(-tau*s) *X(s).

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