title: Iterative learning control with applications in energy generation, lasers and health care.
abstract: Many physical systems make repeated executions of the same finite time duration task. One example is a robot in a factory or warehouse whose task is to collect an object in sequence from a location, transfer it over a finite duration, place it at a specified location or on a moving conveyor and then return for the next one and so on. Iterative learning control was especially developed for systems with this mode of operation and this paper gives an overview of this control design method using relatively recent relevant applications in wind turbines, free-electron lasers and health care, as exemplars to demonstrate its applicability.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronics and Computer Science , University of Southampton , Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors.forename: E
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-0179-9398
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering and the Environment , University of Southampton , Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors.forename: O R
authors.initials: OR
authors.lastname: Tutty
keywords: iterative learning control; stroke rehabilitation; wind turbines