Title: Application of an anti-windup multivariable continuous-time generalised predictive control to a temperature control of an aluminium plate

Authors: Mingcong Deng, Akira Inoue, Naohiko Ishibashi, Akira Yanou

Addresses: Department of Systems Engineering, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-Naka, Okayama 700-8530, Japan. ' Department of Systems Engineering, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-Naka, Okayama 700-8530, Japan. ' Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Technology Center, Hiroshima Research and Development Center, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD., 6-22, 4-Chome, Kanonshinmachi, Nishiku, Hiroshima 733-8553, Japan. ' Department of Design Engineering, Kinki University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-2116, Japan

Abstract: This paper is concerned with a design problem of a Multivariable Continuous-time Anti-windup Generalised Predictive Control (MCAGPC) using coprime factorisation and Youla-Kucera parameterisation for an aluminium plate thermal process with input constraints. Based on the proposed design scheme, using a stable predictive controller, a stability condition of closed-loop system with input constraints is derived. As a result, a strongly stable feedback control system based on predictive control technique is obtained. The effectiveness of the proposed design scheme is confirmed by a simulation to a constrainted temperature control of an aluminium plate thermal process.

Keywords: input constraints; thermal process; generalised predictive control; anti-windup; temperature control; aluminium plate; feedback control; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIC.2007.014625

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 2007 Vol.2 No.2, pp.130 - 137

Published online: 21 Jul 2007 *

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