Implementation of a two-tank multivariable process for control education

In many industrial processes there are multivariable systems which have more than one controlled variable and more than one manipulated variable. For the proper control of this type of process, the influence of one control loop on another must be taken into account, and the objective is to reduce or...

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Autores:
Ruiz, J.M.
Giraldo, J.A
Duque Pardo, Jorge Eliécer
Villa Ramírez, José Luis
Tipo de recurso:
Fecha de publicación:
2020
Institución:
Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
Repositorio:
Repositorio Institucional UTB
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.utb.edu.co:20.500.12585/9986
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12585/9986
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9290318
Palabra clave:
Coupled tanks
Decoupling
IMC
Multivariable control
RGA
LEMB
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closedAccess
License
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb
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Summary:In many industrial processes there are multivariable systems which have more than one controlled variable and more than one manipulated variable. For the proper control of this type of process, the influence of one control loop on another must be taken into account, and the objective is to reduce or eliminate the effect of this interaction and control the ties independently. Despite the importance of this type of process, its teaching is not standard in automatic undergraduate control courses. In this paper, We describe a two–tank multivariable process implemented in a control laboratory and the procedure performed to compute the control law, analyzing the interaction of the loops using the RGA relative gain matrix, designing the loop decouplers and tuning the PID by the IMC method.