Abstract After a brief recall of some previous results concerning multivariable control of power plants, the reasons for the present studies relative to multivariable adaptive control of thermal and nuclear power plants are discussed. The precise problem which has been tackled is the control of the steam generator of the second fast breeder French nuclear reactor called Super-Phenix. After a short description of the plant and its responses at different loads, the principles and the performances of the standard technique control scheme which has been adopted are discussed. Motivated by the limitations inherent in the standard approach, a new model reference multivariable adaptive control method is described. This latter control method utilizes as a design tool a simple vector difference equation of the controlled system. The adaptive control method is of the series-parallel direct reference model type and the adjustment algorithm is the standard least squares estimation technics with hyperstability conditions, controlled convergence speed forgetting, regularization and threshold operations. Numerical results are presented which illustrate the interest of the latter approach.


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    Title :

    Discrete-time model reference multivariable adaptive control applications to electrical power plants


    Subtitle :

    Quatrième Conférence Internationale sur l'Analyse et l'Optimisation des système


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1980-01-01


    Size :

    22 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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