Iterative Algorithms for Multilayer Optimizing Control

The following sections are included:

• Preface

• Notation and Acronyms

• Contents

The following sections are included:

• Control System

• Hierarchical Control Structures
  • Functional multilayer structure
  • Temporal multilayer structure

• Decomposition and Modeling in Functional Multilayer Structure

• Optimizing Control

• Multilayer Control of Integrated Wastewater System: A Case Study
  • Presentation of integrated wastewater system at Kartuzy in Poland
  • Control objectives
  • Control structure
    • Supervisory control layer
    • Optimizing control layer
    • Follow-up control layer
    • Temporal decomposition

The following sections are included:

• Process Descriptions and Control Task Formulation
  • Process description
  • Optimizing control and optimal control problems
  • The steady-state case
  • Implementation of the set-point step changes

• Steady-State Model Optimization

• Steady-State Optimizing Control
  • Basic control structures and strategies
  • Problems with constraints on process outputs

The following sections are included:

• Correction Algorithm for Problems with Unconstrained Outputs

• Correction Algorithm for Structures with Feedback Controlled Output Constraints

The following sections are included:

• Algorithm Structure

• Convergence and Optimality

• On-line Estimation of Process Mapping Derivatives

• Dual ISOPE Algorithm

• Dual ISOPE Algorithm with Optimized Initial Phase

• Comparative Simulation Study

• Case Study Examples

The following sections are included:

• Feedback Controlled Output Constraints
  • Process with constraint controllers
  • Basic ISOPE algorithm
  • Dual ISOPE algorithm
  • Simulation studies

• Algorithmic Implementation of Output Constraints
  • Problem formulation and analysis
  • Algorithm 1
  • Algorithm 2
  • Illustrative simulation example

• ISOPE as Optimization Algorithm for Nonlinear Models

The following sections are included:

• Optimizing Control of Batch Processes
  • Control task formulation
  • Optimizing control algorithm structure
  • Implementation of DISOPE algorithm
    • Implicit implementation of DISOPE algorithm
    • Explicit implementation of DISOPE algorithm

• ISOPE for Traveling Load Furnace Control: A Case Study
  • Introduction
  • Description of the process, measurement instrumentation and control architecture and hardware
  • Defining the batch for the pilot-scale traveling load furnace
  • Mathematical model of the batch and the parameter estimation problem
  • Performance function
  • Dynamic modified model-based optimization problem
  • Reducing number of control signals
    • Periodic control functions
    • Parameterized control functions

The following sections are included:

• The Interconnected System Description and Modeling

• Iterative Correction by Interaction Balance Method with Feedback
  • Presentation of the method
  • Coordination strategies
  • Simulation studies

• ISOPE Double-Loop Iterative Algorithms with Input-Output Measurements
  • ISOPE double-loop iterative algorithms
  • Double-loop iterative algorithms with input-output measurements
  • System-based double-loop algorithm
  • Model-based double-loop algorithms
    • Model-based double-loop algorithm with tight inner loop
    • Model-based double-loop algorithm with relaxed inner loop
  • Simulation studies

• ISOPE Double-Loop Iterative Algorithms with Output Measurements
  • Structure
  • Optimality
  • System-based double-loop algorithm
    • Algorithm
    • Algorithmic mappings and convergence
  • Model-based double-loop algorithms
    • Model-based double-loop algorithm with tight inner loop
    • Model-based double-loop algorithm with relaxed inner loop
  • Simulation studies

The following sections are included:

• Appendix A: Proof of Theorem 4.1

• Appendix B: Proofs of Theorems 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3
  • Proof of Theorem 7.1
  • Proof of Theorem 7.2
  • Proof of Theorem 7.3

• Bibliography

• Index