Development and Applications of Multirate Digital Control Paper Review- Imama {G1113363} (DCS) This paper by Douglas is a review

paper on the subject of multi-rate control. The use of control in high-order dynamic models and the presence of instrumentation measurements had resulted in multirate control. This paper briefs through the history of discrete control and multirate control and multiple design techniques are also touched. Furthermore two examples of multirate applications are explained. This is more towards the field of aerospace. The objective of this paper is to renew the interest in this field and show its importance. The main contributions of this paper can be said to be the presence of different techniques and their sources and an example application of multirate control. On top of that, the prospective future fields for researchers to work is pointed out. The author helps people to understand how the topic came into being and the scarce amount of published work in this field. The author gives examples in the aerospace field but points out that future work can be done in non-aerospace fields. Quite a number of things were made apparent through this paper. The first being the presence of multirate control in very important fields and the need of its presence due to the presence of practical problems as most of the systems need sensors which would fall under instrumentation sampling. Thus multiple sampling would easily fall under the category of multirate control. The paper has pointed out different design techniques which could be used for discrete control. Some of these techniques were well explained while others were just briefly explained only like the Rattans Method. Furthermore, the paper has many citations pointing out the presence of mathematical procedures of different techniques in other papers. Future research has been told but since the paper is written in 1982, these future work could have already taken place. The objective of the paper is not clearly stated although all of what the paper promised was delivered. The motivation of this paper was due to the presence of an interest in multiple sample rate in the field of digital control. It is believed that since the authors background is in aerospace, he had brought multiple examples from the same field. The citations and figures were well presented. The problem is that a person without knowledge in the field of multirate control

will have a problem understanding the figures or the concepts, so the paper is addressed to readers who already understand the concept of multirate digital control. Any presented paper can be thoroughly improved according to different views. From the current view of the reviewer, it would be suggested that some mathematical flow of work is presented to interest readers who do not have the knowledge on multirate. Under design techniques, the Tustin transform was explained but the explanation included to state the direct substitution of the bilinear form. If readers who did not have knowledge about the integration (Trapezoidal approach) substitution reads this part of the paragraph, it would be easily misunderstood that direct substitution of the said transform. A better wording of the paragraph could be used to explain them. Any technical procedure which has multiple steps is easily understood with diagrams (like flowchart). If the author is able to insert a diagram under the Example Multirate Control Systems, it would be easy for the reader to comprehend the material. The paper was complete and stood to deliver what was mentioned in the abstract.