Control Performance Management in Industrial Automation

Control Performance Management in Industrial Automation
Author: Mohieddine Jelali
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2012-10-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1447145461

Control Performance Management in Industrial Automation provides a coherent and self-contained treatment of a group of methods and applications of burgeoning importance to the detection and solution of problems with control loops that are vital in maintaining product quality, operational safety, and efficiency of material and energy consumption in the process industries. The monograph deals with all aspects of control performance management (CPM), from controller assessment (minimum-variance-control-based and advanced methods), to detection and diagnosis of control loop problems (process non-linearities, oscillations, actuator faults), to the improvement of control performance (maintenance, re-design of loop components, automatic controller re-tuning). It provides a contribution towards the development and application of completely self-contained and automatic methodologies in the field. Moreover, within this work, many CPM tools have been developed that goes far beyond available CPM packages. Control Performance Management in Industrial Automation: · presents a comprehensive review of control performance assessment methods; · develops methods and procedures for the detection and diagnosis of the root-causes of poor performance in complex control loops; · covers important issues that arise when applying these assessment and diagnosis methods; · recommends new approaches and techniques for the optimization of control loop performance based on the results of the control performance stage; and · offers illustrative examples and industrial case studies drawn from – chemicals, building, mining, pulp and paper, mineral and metal processing industries. This book will be of interest to academic and industrial staff working on control systems design, maintenance or optimisation in all process industries.

Control Performance Assessment: Theoretical Analyses and Industrial Practice

Control Performance Assessment: Theoretical Analyses and Industrial Practice
Author: Paweł D. Domański
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2019-09-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030235939

This book presents a comprehensive review of currently available Control Performance Assessment methods. It covers a broad range of classical and modern methods, with a main focus on assessment practice, and is intended to help practitioners learn and properly perform control assessment in the industrial reality. Further, it offers an educational guide for control engineers, who are currently in high demand in the industry. The book consists of three main parts. Firstly, a comprehensive review of available approaches is presented and discussed. The classical canon methods are extended with a discussion of nonlinear and complex alternative measures using non-Gaussian statistics, persistence and fractional calculations. Secondly, the methods’ applicability aspects are visualized with the aid of computer simulations, covering the most popular control philosophies used in the process industry. Lastly, a critical review of the methods discussed, on the basis of real-world industrial examples, rounds out the coverage.

Practical PID Control

Practical PID Control
Author: Antonio Visioli
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2006-11-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1846285860

This book focuses on those functionalities that can provide significant improvements in Proportional–integral–derivative (PID) performance in combination with parameter tuning. In particular, the choice of filter to make the controller proper, the use of a feedforward action and the selection of an anti-windup strategy are addressed. The book gives the reader new methods for improving the performance of the most widely applied form of control in industry.

Control of Integral Processes with Dead Time

Control of Integral Processes with Dead Time
Author: Antonio Visioli
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2010-11-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0857290703

Control of Integral Processes with Dead Time provides a unified and coherent review of the various approaches devised for the control of integral processes, addressing the problem from different standpoints. In particular, the book treats the following topics: How to tune a PID controller and assess its performance; How to design a two-degree-of-freedom control scheme in order to deal with both the set-point following and load disturbance rejection tasks; How to modify the basic Smith predictor control scheme in order to cope with the presence of an integrator in the process; and how to address the presence of large process dead times. The methods are presented sequentially, highlighting the evolution of their rationale and implementation and thus clearly characterising them from both academic and industrial perspectives.

European Control Conference 1993

European Control Conference 1993
Author:
Publisher: European Control Association
Total Pages: 684
Release: 1993-06-28
Genre:
ISBN:

Proceedings of the European Control Conference 1993, Groningen, Netherlands, June 28 – July 1, 1993

Intelligent Decision Technologies

Intelligent Decision Technologies
Author: R. Neves-Silva
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2013-06-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1614992649

The field of intelligent decision technologies is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging computer science with its development of artificial intelligence, information systems with its development of decision support systems, and engineering with its development of systems. This book presents the 45 papers accepted for presentation at the 5th KES International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT 2013), held in Sesimbra, Portugal, in June 2013. The conference consists of keynote talks, oral and poster presentations, invited sessions and workshops on the applications and theory of intelligent decision systems and related areas. The conference provides an opportunity for the presentation and discussion of interesting new research results, promoting knowledge transfer and the generation of new ideas. The book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the development and application of intelligent decision systems.

Proceedings, the Irish Signals and Systems Conference 2004

Proceedings, the Irish Signals and Systems Conference 2004
Author: Sakir Sezer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 732
Release: 2004
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Over the past 12 years, ISSC has been a major forum for engineers and young researchers in Ireland on communications, control and DSP. The conference has established itself as one of the premier conferences in Ireland, addressing all aspects of signals and systems including design, implementation, algorithms, modelling and performance. This conference continued this tradition under the auspices of the IEE and for the first time the ISSC conference proceedings are published by the IEE and indexed by INSPEC.

New Approaches in Automation and Robotics

New Approaches in Automation and Robotics
Author: Harald Aschemann
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2008-05-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3902613262

The book New Approaches in Automation and Robotics offers in 22 chapters a collection of recent developments in automation, robotics as well as control theory. It is dedicated to researchers in science and industry, students, and practicing engineers, who wish to update and enhance their knowledge on modern methods and innovative applications. The authors and editor of this book wish to motivate people, especially under-graduate students, to get involved with the interesting field of robotics and mechatronics. We hope that the ideas and concepts presented in this book are useful for your own work and could contribute to problem solving in similar applications as well. It is clear, however, that the wide area of automation and robotics can only be highlighted at several spots but not completely covered by a single book.

Detection and Diagnosis of Stiction in Control Loops

Detection and Diagnosis of Stiction in Control Loops
Author: Mohieddine Jelali
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 184882775X

In the process industries, stiction is the most common performance-limiting valve problem and over the last decade numerous different techniques for overcoming it have been proposed. This book represents a comprehensive presentation of these methods, including their principles, assumptions, strengths and drawbacks. Guidelines and working procedures are provided for the implementation of each method and MATLAB®-based software can be downloaded from www.ualberta.ca/~bhuang/stiction-book enabling readers to apply the methods to their own data. Methods for the limitation of stiction effects are proposed within the general context of: oscillation detection in control loops, stiction detection, diagnosis and stiction quantification and diagnosis of multiple faults. The state-of-the-art algorithms presented in this book are demonstrated and compared in industrial case studies of diverse origin – chemicals, building, mining, pulp and paper, mineral and metal processing.

Nonlinear Industrial Control Systems

Nonlinear Industrial Control Systems
Author: Michael J. Grimble
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2020-05-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1447174577

Nonlinear Industrial Control Systems presents a range of mostly optimisation-based methods for severely nonlinear systems; it discusses feedforward and feedback control and tracking control systems design. The plant models and design algorithms are provided in a MATLAB® toolbox that enable both academic examples and industrial application studies to be repeated and evaluated, taking into account practical application and implementation problems. The text makes nonlinear control theory accessible to readers having only a background in linear systems, and concentrates on real applications of nonlinear control. It covers: different ways of modelling nonlinear systems including state space, polynomial-based, linear parameter varying, state-dependent and hybrid; design techniques for nonlinear optimal control including generalised-minimum-variance, model predictive control, quadratic-Gaussian, factorised and H∞ design methods; design philosophies that are suitable for aerospace, automotive, marine, process-control, energy systems, robotics, servo systems and manufacturing; steps in design procedures that are illustrated in design studies to define cost-functions and cope with problems such as disturbance rejection, uncertainties and integral wind-up; and baseline non-optimal control techniques such as nonlinear Smith predictors, feedback linearization, sliding mode control and nonlinear PID. Nonlinear Industrial Control Systems is valuable to engineers in industry dealing with actual nonlinear systems. It provides students with a comprehensive range of techniques and examples for solving real nonlinear control design problems.