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Control of a coupled tank system using PI controller with advanced control methods
Ho, Ling Nai1, Norhaliza Abdul Wahab2, Ibrahim A. Shehu3, Alhassan, A4, Albool, I5, Ibnihajar, N6, Othman, B. M7, Zainal, M. S8, Ibrahim, M. J9, Rasol, M. S10.
The liquid level control in tanks and flow control between cascaded or coupled tanks
are the basic control problems exist in process industries nowadays. Liquids are to be
pumped, stored or mixed in tanks for various types of chemical processes and all these
require essential control and regulation of flow and liquid level. In this paper, different
types of tuning methods are proposed for Proportional-Integral (PI) controller and are
further improved with integration of Advanced Process Control (APC) method such as
feedforward and gain scheduling to essentially control the liquid level in Tank 2 of a
coupled tank system. The MATLAB/Simulink tools are used to design PI controller using
pole-placement, Ciancone, Cohen Coon and modified Ziegler-Nichols tuning method
with Cohen Coon tuning method found to have a better performance. Advanced
process control such as feedforward-plus-PI, Gain Scheduling (GS) based PI, Internal
Model Control (IMC) based PI, feedforward-plus-GS-based PI and feedforward-plus-IMCbased
PI controllers are further tested as improvement version to further compare the
significance of the advanced process control outcomes hence GS-PI, improved GI-base
PI-plus FF found to have better performance. The GS method is built over five operating
points to approximate the system’s nonlinearity and is eventually combined with
feedforward control to yield a much better performance.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
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