Plant Templates
Usually any system can be represented by its Transform Function (Laplace in continuous time domain), after getting the model of a system.
As a result of experimental measurement, values of coefficients in the Transform Function have a range of uncertainty. Therefore, in QFT every parameter of this function is included into an interval of possible values, and the system may be represented by a family of plants rather than by a standalone expression.
A frequency analysis is performed for a finite number of representative frequencies and a set of templates are obtained in the NC diagram which encloses the behaviour of the open loop system at each frequency.
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