Two-degree-of-freedom controller design for an Ill-conditioned distillation process using μ-Synthesis

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 12-21

  Lundström, Petter ^a   Skogestad, Sigurd ^b,d   Doyle, John C ^c,d  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d IEEE

Author keywords

H infinity control; Process control; Robustness; Structured singular value; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DISTILLATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

SOFTWARE PACKAGE MATLAB; STRUCTURED SINGULAR VALUE;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032740564     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/87.736744     Document Type: Article

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