Studying Discretisation Behaviours in Variable Structure Control Systems

变结构控制是一种帮助建立非常简单和有效的开关控制装置来处理环境不确定性的技术，例如，在工业控制系统/过程中广泛使用的环境不确定性。这项研究的结果将有助于理解由于离散化而导致的控制性能恶化，并开发有效的措施来防止这些控制设备可能的不良行为。这项研究将使澳大利亚走在这项新技术开发的前沿，从而提高控制设备的可靠性，提高工业生产率和节约成本，从而改善生活质量。

Variable structure control is a technology that helps build very simple and effective switching control devices for dealing with environmental uncertainties, which are widely used, for example, in industrial control systems/processes. The outcomes from this research will help the understanding of control performance deterioration due to discretisation and developing effective measures for protection from possible ill behaviours of these control devices. This research will place Australia in the forefront of the development of this new technology, resulting in enhanced reliability of control devices, improved productivity and cost saving for industries, and consequent improvement in quality of life.