Nonlinear predictive control with dead-time compensator: Application to a solar power plant

Solar Energy

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 743-752

  Gálvez Carrillo, Manuel ^a   De Keyser, Robin ^b   Ionescu, Clara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dead time compensator; Nonlinear model predictive control; Solar power plant

Indexed keywords

DEAD-TIME COMPENSATOR; FIRST PRINCIPLES; GREY-BOX MODELS; NON-LINEAR CONTROLLERS; NON-LINEAR MODELS; NON-LINEAR PREDICTIVE CONTROLS; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; REAL MEASUREMENTS; REFERENCE-TRACKING; SELF-ADAPTIVE; SIMULATION TESTS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; CONTROLLERS; DISTURBANCE REJECTION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; CONTROL SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POWER PLANT; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 63449085145     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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