Optimal strategy for control a pilot plant reactor

  • Authors:
  • Paulo Salgado;Paulo Afonso;Manuela Cunha

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento das Engenharias, CITAB, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal;Departamento das Engenharias, ESTGA, Universidade de Aveiro, Águeda, Portugal;Escola S/3 S. Pedro, Vila Real, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • CIMMACS'07 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS international conference on Computational intelligence, man-machine systems and cybernetics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, a real-time optimal control technique for control the liquid level and temperature in a continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) in a pilot plant is proposed. The control system makes use of the Pontryagin's Minimum Principle and from a new back propagation algorithm of the final co-state error, allowing the training of an adaptive fuzzy inference system to estimate values for the optimal co-state variables. These strategies are employed for designing approximate optimal controllers via a control variable discretization. This approach allows the on-line solution of the optimal control problem by training the system, which can be used on a close-loop control strategy. The control system design is developed by minimizing a quadratic performance index selected for the desired operating conditions. The control simulations results are presented.