Title
MIMO fractional order control of a water tank plant
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
ASTES Publishers
Abstract
This work implements a MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) FO (Fractional Order) control system for controlling the level and temperature of the water inside a tank by means of two inflow rates: cold and hot water, which are mixed to produce an outflow rate. Such a process exhibits coupling between inputs and outputs. A linear model of the plant is obtained experimentally. Such a model, the transfer matrix function of the plant, is used to design a centralized MIMO IO (Integer Order) controller that permits to achieve complete decoupling between the set points of level and temperature and the corresponding controlled outputs: level and temperature in the tank. The MIMO FO controller is obtained making fractional all de transfer functions of the MIMO IO controller. Experimental results demonstrate that the MIMO FO control system improves the control performance of the plant outputs: level and temperature of the water in the tank.
Start page
321
End page
327
Volume
4
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85079270684
Source
Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems
ISSN of the container
24156698
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