Abstracto

Dynamic Modeling, Simulation and Control of MIMO Systems

M.Bharathi, C.Selvakumar

Designing control systems for complete plants is the ultimate goal of a control designer. The problem is quite large and complex. It involves a large number of theoretical and practical considerations such as quality of controlled response; stability; the safety of the operating plant; the reliability of the control system; the range of control and ease of startup, shutdown, or changeover; the ease of operation; and the cost of the control system. The difficulties are aggravated by the fact that most of the industrial and chemical processes are largely nonlinear, imprecisely known, multivariable systems with many interactions. The measurements and manipulations are limited to a relatively small number of variables, while the control objectives may not be clearly stated or even known at the beginning of the control system design. Thus, the presence of process input-output time delay of different magnitude in multi-input-multi-output systems have drawn attention to research as the processes are difficult to control. Increase in complexity and interactions between inputs and outputs yield degraded process behavior.