Application of multivariate virtual reference feedback tuning for wastewater treatment plant control

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 499-510

  Rojas, José David ^a   Flores Alsina, Xavier ^b   Jeppsson, Ulf ^b   Vilanova, Ramón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

BSM1; Control of WWTP; Data driven control; MIMO control; Virtual reference feedback tuning

Indexed keywords

BSM1; CONTROL LOOP; CONTROL SIGNAL; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; DATA-DRIVEN CONTROL; ERROR SIGNAL; INPUT-OUTPUT DATA; OPEN LOOPS; OUTPUT SIGNAL; PLANT PERFORMANCE; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; REDUCED-ORDER CONTROLLERS; SENSOR NOISE; SIMULATION MODEL; VIRTUAL REFERENCE FEEDBACK TUNING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIMO SYSTEMS; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; TOXICITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84857640794     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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