Beschreibung:
Case Studies in Control presents a framework to facilitate the use of advanced control concepts in real systems based on two decades of research and over 150 successful applications for industrial end-users from various backgrounds. In successive parts the text approaches the problem of putting the theory to work from both ends, theoretical and practical. The first part begins with a stress on solid control theory and the shaping of that theory to solve particular instances of practical problems. It emphasizes the need to establish by experiment whether a model-derived solution will perform properly in reality. The second part focuses on real industrial applications based on the needs and requirements of end-users. Here, the engineering approach is dominant but with theoretical input of varying degree depending on the particular process involved.
About the Gap between Theory and Practice.- Part I: From Theory towards Practice.- Identification and Control Using Piece-wise Hammerstein Models.- Tracking Explicit Model Predictive Controllers for Low-level Control Applications.- Divide-and-conquer Method for Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Systems.- Model-based Control of Nitrogen-removal Processes in a Wastewater-treatment Plant.- Part II: From Practice towards Theory.- Temperature Control in a Plastic Extruder Control System.- Tension Control in a Steel-slitting Line.- Final Quality Assessment in the Manufacturing of Electrical Motors.- Model-based Estimation of Burn Injuries.- Part III: Tools and Building Blocks for Control Systems Implementation.- A PLC-based System for Advanced Control.- An Approach to Control Systems SW Development.