Dead-Time Compensation and Performance Monitoring in Process Control
(2003) In PhD Thesis TFRT-1064- Abstract
- The thesis contains two parts, dead-time compensation and performance monitoring. The first part on dead-time compensation is about robust tuning procedures for dead-time compensating controllers (DTC). Both stable and integrating processes are considered. Simple experiments are performed to obtain process models as well as bounds on the allowable bandwidth for stability. The DTCs used have few parameters with clear physical interpretation so that manual tuning is possible.
In the second part on dead-time compensation the performance of PID controllers is compared to the performance of DTCs. The aim is to answer the question: ``When can a simple dead-time compensator be expected to perform better than a PID?''. The... (More) - The thesis contains two parts, dead-time compensation and performance monitoring. The first part on dead-time compensation is about robust tuning procedures for dead-time compensating controllers (DTC). Both stable and integrating processes are considered. Simple experiments are performed to obtain process models as well as bounds on the allowable bandwidth for stability. The DTCs used have few parameters with clear physical interpretation so that manual tuning is possible.
In the second part on dead-time compensation the performance of PID controllers is compared to the performance of DTCs. The aim is to answer the question: ``When can a simple dead-time compensator be expected to perform better than a PID?''. The performance criterion used is the integrated absolute error (IAE). It is compared for PI and PID controllers and a simple dead-time compensator (DTC) when a step load disturbance is applied at the plant input.
The topic of the second part of the thesis is performance monitoring of lambda-tuned feedback controllers. A lambda tuned loop is a loop with an one-degree-of freedom controller whose set point response is of first order plus dead time. Lambda is the time constant of the set-point response. For these loops a non intrusive performance monitoring methods is described which is thought to be a first indicator of bad performance after which existing diagnosis algorithms could be applied. For online implementation in distributed control systems a simple recursive algorithm to estimate the index is presented. All parameters of the monitoring method are set by using the lambda tuning. The method applies equally to stochastic or deterministic disturbances.
Finally an algorithm to estimate a synthetic gradient of a quadratic cost function is presented. It is demonstrated that the gradient can provide valuable information for maintenance of controllers as the gradient gives information about the disturbances affecting the loop. (Less) - Abstract (Swedish)
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Avhandlingen består av två delar. Den första delen behandlar reglering av processer med lång dödtid. Avhandlingen ger förslag på hur regulatorer för dessa processer ska dimensioneras och jämför sedan prestanda hos dessa regulatorer med vanliga PID-regulatorer.
Avhandlingens andra del handlar om metoder för automatisk övervakning av reglerkretsar i processindustrin. Två nya metoder presenteras. Båda metoderna är testade i pappersindustrin. Dessa test visar att metoderna fungerar bra och upptäcker när reglerkretsar inte fungerar som de ska.
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- author
- Ingimundarson, Ari LU
- supervisor
- opponent
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- Professor Bay Jørgensen, Sten, Denmark
- organization
- publishing date
- 2003
- type
- Thesis
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- robotteknik, Automatiska system, reglerteknik, Automation, robotics, control engineering
- in
- PhD Thesis TFRT-1064
- pages
- 145 pages
- publisher
- Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology (LTH)
- defense location
- M:B, the M-building, Lund Institute of Technology
- defense date
- 2003-01-31 10:15:00
- ISSN
- 0280-5316
- 0280-5316
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- f2c67a1b-897a-4ed9-9074-1a1ca448644c (old id 20705)
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abstract = {{The thesis contains two parts, dead-time compensation and performance monitoring. The first part on dead-time compensation is about robust tuning procedures for dead-time compensating controllers (DTC). Both stable and integrating processes are considered. Simple experiments are performed to obtain process models as well as bounds on the allowable bandwidth for stability. The DTCs used have few parameters with clear physical interpretation so that manual tuning is possible.<br/><br>
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In the second part on dead-time compensation the performance of PID controllers is compared to the performance of DTCs. The aim is to answer the question: ``When can a simple dead-time compensator be expected to perform better than a PID?''. The performance criterion used is the integrated absolute error (IAE). It is compared for PI and PID controllers and a simple dead-time compensator (DTC) when a step load disturbance is applied at the plant input.<br/><br>
<br/><br>
The topic of the second part of the thesis is performance monitoring of lambda-tuned feedback controllers. A lambda tuned loop is a loop with an one-degree-of freedom controller whose set point response is of first order plus dead time. Lambda is the time constant of the set-point response. For these loops a non intrusive performance monitoring methods is described which is thought to be a first indicator of bad performance after which existing diagnosis algorithms could be applied. For online implementation in distributed control systems a simple recursive algorithm to estimate the index is presented. All parameters of the monitoring method are set by using the lambda tuning. The method applies equally to stochastic or deterministic disturbances.<br/><br>
<br/><br>
Finally an algorithm to estimate a synthetic gradient of a quadratic cost function is presented. It is demonstrated that the gradient can provide valuable information for maintenance of controllers as the gradient gives information about the disturbances affecting the loop.}},
author = {{Ingimundarson, Ari}},
issn = {{0280-5316}},
keywords = {{robotteknik; Automatiska system; reglerteknik; Automation; robotics; control engineering}},
language = {{eng}},
publisher = {{Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology (LTH)}},
school = {{Lund University}},
series = {{PhD Thesis TFRT-1064}},
title = {{Dead-Time Compensation and Performance Monitoring in Process Control}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/4658982/8571804.pdf}},
year = {{2003}},
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