Skogestad, Sigurd and Morari, Manfred and Doyle, John C. (1988) Robust control of ill-conditioned plants: high-purity distillation. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 33 (12). pp. 1092-1105. ISSN 0018-9286. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:SKOieeetac88
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Using a high-purity distillation column as an example, the physical reason for the poor conditioning and its implications on control system design and performance are explained. It is shown that an acceptable performance/robustness tradeoff cannot be obtained by simple loop-shaping techniques (using singular values) and that a good understanding of the model uncertainty is essential for robust control system design. Physically motivated uncertainty descriptions (actuator uncertainties) are translated into the H∞/structured singular value framework, which is demonstrated to be a powerful tool to analyze and understand the complex phenomena.
|Additional Information:||© Copyright 1988 IEEE. Reprinted with permission. Manuscript received December 2, 1986; revised May 19, 1988. Paper recommended by Associate Editor, D. Seborg. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation and by Norsk Hydro.|
|Subject Keywords:||chemical industry; control system synthesis; distillation|
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