Non-linear control of a distillation column coupled with MPC and state observer

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 88-99

  Jana, Amiya K ^a   Ganguly, Saibal ^b   Samanta, Amar Nath ^b  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Distillation; GLC DMC; GLC PI; PI; Proportional integral; Reduced order observer; ROO; Short cut process model based observer; SPMBO

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; TWO TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

DYNAMIC MATRIX CONTROLLER; GLOBALLY-LINEARISING CONTROL; REDUCED-ORDER OBSERVER; SHORT-CUT PROCESS MODEL-BASED CONTROLLER;

NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548274452     PISSN: 17466172     EISSN: 17466180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMIC.2007.014621     Document Type: Article

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