Real-time discrete suboptimal control for systems with input and state delays: Experimental tests on a dehydration process
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Liliam Rodríguez-Guerrero1, Omar-Jacobo Santos-Sánchez1, Nicolás Cervantes-Escorcia2
1Research Center on Technology of Information and Systems (CITIS) of the Autonomous University of Hidalgo State (UAEH), Mexico.
Abstract:
This article presents a suboptimal control strategy with finite horizon for affine nonlinear discrete systems with both state and input delays. The Dynamic Programming Approach is used to obtain the suboptimal control sequence, but in order to avoid the computation of the Bellman functional, a numerical approximation of this function is proposed in every step. The feasibility of our proposal is demonstrated via an experimental test on a dehydration process and the obtained results show a good performance and behavior of this process. Then in order to demonstrate the benefits of using this kind of control strategy, the results are compared with a non optimal control strategy, particularly with respect to results produced by an industrial Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) Honeywell controller, which is tuned using the Ziegler-Nichols method.
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