Design of I-PDA Controller Incorporating FFC for Flow Control Systems

  • Cahyadi, A.I. (Faculty of Engineering and Research Center for Communications and Information Technology King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang) ;
  • Khuakoonratt, N. (Faculty of Engineering and Research Center for Communications and Information Technology King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang) ;
  • Benjanarasuth, T. (Faculty of Engineering and Research Center for Communications and Information Technology King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang) ;
  • Ngamwiwit, J. (Faculty of Engineering and Research Center for Communications and Information Technology King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang) ;
  • Komine, N. (School of Information Technology and Electronics, Tokai University)
  • Published : 2003.10.22

Abstract

In this paper, a design of I-PDA controller by CDM to control a flow process whose structure is first order lag plus a dead time is introduced. The factor of dead time of the process is approximated by second order Pade approximation in order to get a third order system. The simulations show that both of the transient and steady state specifications can be fulfilled. However, the transient response of the I-PDA control system still has long rise time. Then, a feedforward controller (FFC) with two adjustable parameters and one derivative time is introduced into I-PDA control system for improving the speed of the system response. It is shown, from the simulation results, that the performance of the I-PDA control system with suitable FFC has shorter rise time and no overshoot, while settling time remains almost the same. The performance comparison of the proposed control system with the PI control system with and without FFC is also made.

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