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An industrial control loop decoupler for process control applications

Hägglund, Tore LU ; Shinde, Sumit ; Theorin, Alfred and Thomsen, Ulf (2022) In Control Engineering Practice 123(June).
Abstract
The paper describes a simple and efficient control loop decoupler for TITO (two inputs, two outputs) control systems. The inverted decoupling approach is used, and the feedforward filters are just static gains. The feedforward gains are determined in two ways, from a static analysis and from optimization. By investigating several cases found in literature, it is found that the two sets of feedforward gains are very close. The control loop decoupler is implemented in an industrial DCS system and simulation experiments as well as laboratory tests show that a significant reduction of the coupling is accomplished. Automatic tuning of the feedforward gains is derived and implemented in the system as well.
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keywords
Decoupling Inverted decoupling TITO control Process control Feedforward control
in
Control Engineering Practice
volume
123
issue
June
article number
105138
pages
12 pages
publisher
Elsevier
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  • scopus:85125752458
ISSN
0967-0661
DOI
10.1016/j.conengprac.2022.105138
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Decentralized Control Structures
PID Control
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English
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