Fractional delay filter based repetitive control for precision tracking: Design and application to a piezoelectric nanopositioning stage

The development of nanotechnology requires a precision tracking of periodic signals in order to complete repetitive industrial or scientific tasks. Although repetitive control is an intuitive choice to realize precisely periodic signal’s tracking, an integer number should match the period of signals for a digital control system otherwise the performance would be deteriorated significantly. Thus, in this paper, a fractional delay filter based...