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Bartosz Puchalski1, Tomasz Adam Rutkowski1, Kazimierz Duzinkiewicz1
1Faculty of Electrical and Control Engineering, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gabriela Narutowicza Street 11/12, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland.
Abstract:
The paper presents the methodology for the synthesis of a Fuzzy Multi-Regional Fractional Order PID controller (FMR-FOPID) used to control the average thermal power of a PWR nuclear reactor in the load following mode. The controller utilizes a set of FOPID controllers and the fuzzy logic Takagi-Sugeno reasoning system. The proposed methodology is based on two optimization parts. The first part is devoted to finding the optimal parameters of local FOPID controllers and in the second part, the optimal membership functions of the fuzzy reasoning system are designed. During the controller designing and comparison phase, the two validated nodal models of a nuclear reactor are used, simplified model and extended model respectively. The proposed approach has been verified by computer simulations that confirm its effectiveness.
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