Improved Temperature Control of a PWR Nuclear Reactor Using an LQG/LTR Based Controller

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 211-218

  Arab Alibeik, Hussein ^a   Setayeshi, Saeed ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

fission reactor control and monitoring; Fission reactors; linear quadratic Gaussian control; nuclear power generation control; stochastic optimal control

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LINEARIZATION; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATE FEEDBACK; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

LINEAR-QUADRATIC GAUSSIAN CONTROL;

NUCLEAR REACTORS;

EID: 0037291623     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.807860     Document Type: Article

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