μ-Suboptimal design of a robustly performing controller for a chemical reactor

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Abstract
The design of robustly performing controllers for an important class of control problems is treated. The problem is dealt with in the structured singular value (μ)-framework. The systems considered are characterized by weak nonlineari-ties and parametric and unstructured uncertainties. Nonlinear effects are taken into account via linearization families. Parametric uncertainty is included in a non-conservative way. Both lead to a μ-synthesis problem with repeated scalar real perturbations. As no direct solution to such a μ-synthesis problem is known to date, an iterative approach comprising both μ-analysis of the actual problem and D-K-iteration for a modified problem is shown. This approach is applied to a realistic continuous stirred-tank reactor for production of cyclopen-tenol to show the applicability to non-trivial MIMO process control problems.

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