Many processes in industry are highly-coupled Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems. In this paper, a methodology, based on the Kissing Circle (KC) tuning method, is proposed to tune a fractional-order PI controller for these types of systems. The KC method relies on frequency domain specifications and emphasizes improving robustness. The method does not require a model, a single sine test suffices to obtain the controller parameters. Hence, the method can be categorized as an auto-tuner. For comparison, an integer-order PI is tuned with the same requirements. To evaluate and analyze the performance of both controllers an experimental test bench is used, i.e. a landscape office lighting system. A direct low-order discretization method is used to implement the controller in a real process. Both controllers are subjected to simulation experiments to test the performance in time and frequency domain and they are subjected to process variations to evaluate their robustness. The fractional controller manages to control a process that is susceptible to 85% variation in time constant mismatch as opposed to 79% for the integer-order controller. An Integer Absolute Error evaluation of experimental results show that the fractional-order PI controller and integer-order PI controller have similar control performance, as expected from the frequency domain analysis. As model uncertainty can add up in MIMO systems, improved robustness is crucial and with this methodology the control performance does not deteriorate. Moreover, a decrease in power consumption of 6% is observed.


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    Title :

    Robust fractional-order auto-tuning for highly-coupled MIMO systems


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    Publication date :

    2019-01-01


    Remarks:

    HELIYON ; ISSN: 2405-8440



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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