CONTROL AND ESTIMATION FOR PERTURBED NONLINEAR PROCESSES WITH DEADTIME

Abstract

Feedback linearization techniques are used to deal with the nonlinear controller designs which have attracted many researchers' attention in recent years. The approach has been applied successfully to solve a number of practical nonlinear control problems, but typically requires on-line full state measurement which is usually not the case in real chemical process industries. In this paper, we address the problem of synthesizing nonlinear state feedback controllers for time-delay nonlinear systems which are perturbed by disturbances. On-line estimation of the unmeasurable disturbances and unavailable state variables is introduced to facilitate the implementation of coordinate transformations and state feedback and prediction. Two kinds of dynamic compensators are then proposed to handle the process deadtime. Finally numerical simulations in a CSTR example demonstrate the promising performance of the overall nonlinear control structure in disturbance rejection.

KEYWORDS:

• Feedback linearization
• Unmeasurable disturbance
• Nonlinear controller
• On-line estimation
• Deadtime compensation

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HSIAO-PING HUANG

To whom all corresponding should be addressed.