Dual pipeline pressure synchronous-coordinated control with the assistance of the golden section control method

ABSTRACT

This paper addresses a pressure-coordinated control method for the dual pipeline system, with quicker stabilisation and smaller synchronisation error taken into consideration simultaneously. In this approach, a precise mathematical description of the plant is not required. The golden section control method according to online parameter estimation is applied for each branch pipeline pressure control; proportional, integral and derivative controller is used for the coordination between each branch system. The effectiveness and veracity of the proposed scheme are verified by simulations.

KEYWORDS:

• Coordinated control
• golden section control
• online estimation

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

You Wu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-567X

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 61333003; 61773144].

Notes on contributors

You Wu

You Wu was born in 1988. She received the B.Eng. degree in automation from Changsha University of Science and Technology, China, in 2010, and the M.Eng. degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, U.S.A., in 2012. She is currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China. Her current research interests are in the area of data-driven control and multi-agent systems.

Guo-ping Liu

Guo-ping Liu received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in automation from the Central South University of Technology(now Central South University), Changsha, China, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in control engineering from UMIST (now the University of Manchester), Manchester, U.K., in 1992. He is the Chair of Control Engineering with the University of South Wales (formerly the University of Glamorgan), Pontypridd, U.K., where he has been a Professor since 2004. He has been a Hundred-Talent Program Visiting Professor with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, since 2001, and a Changjiang Scholar Visiting Professor with the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, since 2008. His current research interests include networked control systems, nonlinear system identification and control, advanced control of industrial systems, and multi-objective optimisation and control. He has over 400 publications on control systems and authored/co-authored eight books. Professor Liu is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Automation and Computing, an IET Fellow, and an IEEE Fellow.