Practical MPC with robust dead-time compensation applied to a solar desalination plant

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 44, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 4909-4914

  Santos, Tito L M ^a   Roca, Lidia ^b   Guzman, Jose Luiz ^b   Normey Rico, Julio E ^a   Berenguel, Manolo ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dead time compensator; Model predictive control; Robustness; Solar plants

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SOLAR COLLECTORS;

COMPENSATION SCHEME; DEAD TIME COMPENSATOR; DEAD- TIME COMPENSATION; NONLINEAR STRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMS; SOLAR DESALINATION; SOLAR PLANT;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 84866760646     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.01212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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