Piecewise affine approximation of nonlinear systems a case study of a benchmark nonlinear boiler

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1 Proeedngs of the 8th WSEAS Internatonal Conferene on SYSTEM SCIENCE and SIMULATION n ENGINEERING Peewse affne approxmaton of nonlnear sstems a ase std of a benhmark nonlnear boler RADEK HORÁLEK* AND JAROSLAV HLAVA ** *Insttte of Sstems Control and Relablt Management **Insttte of Mehatrons and Compter Engneerng Tehnal Unverst of Lbere, Falt of Mehatrons 7 Lbere, Stdentská CZECH REPUBLIC {radek.horalek, jaroslav.hlava}@tl.z Abstrat: Ths paper deals wth peewse affne (PWA approxmaton of nonlnear sstems. Its motvaton s smple. If the ontrolled plant exhbts nonlnear behavor, lnear ontroller based on lnearzed model ma often be nable to aheve satsfator performane. On the other hand, ntrns omplext of the nonlnear ontroller based on fll nonlnear model ma prevent t from pratal applaton. PWA model that ses a set of swthed partal lnear models an then represent the mddle wa between smplfatons of the lnearzed model and omplext of the nonlnear model. The paper ses a ase std of a nonlnear power plant boler. It shows that ts omplex nonlnear dnamal behavor an well be approxmated wth a relatvel smple PWA sstem. Unlke one lnearzed model, ths PWA approxmaton fts boler dnam behavor ver well. As the development of model predtve ontrol of the PWA sstems has alread reahed a sbstantal level of matrt, ths PWA model an be sed as a bass for the desgn of hbrd model predtve ontrol for ths boler. Ke-Words: Hbrd sstems, peewse affne sstems, approxmaton of nonlnear sstems Introdton A strong emphass on energ effent prodton and tght emsson ontrol s now mperatve n all branhes of ndstr. Ths fat has an mportant mpat also on the feld of atomat ontrol. Tradtonal ontrol sstems based on lnear ontrol theor are no more able to aheve the level of ontrol performane that s dtated b the ontemporar reqrements. Sne the behavor of almost all tehnal sstems s nonlnear, nonlnear ontrol methods an be expeted to be a more promsng approah. However, the pratal applaton of nonlnear ontrol methods s farl nvolved and as a reslt of t, the nmber of reported sessfl applatons of nonlnear ontrol s lmted. Ths fat s partlarl well domented n the ase of the model predtve ontrol (MPC, whh s the most wdel appled advaned ontrol method. Althogh the omprehensve srve of MPC applatons gven b Qn and Badgwell [] reports some sessfl applatons of the non-lnear MPC, the vast majort of pratal MPC applatons are based on lnear models. Conseqentl ther ahevable performane s lmted. A potentall nterestng alternatve to smplst lnear ontrol and exeedngl omplex nonlnear ontrol s the hbrd model predtve ontrol based on peewse affne (PWA models. It was stated alread b Sonntag n ts semnal paper [7] that more general nonlnear sstems an be globall approxmated arbtrarl losel b PWA sstems. At the same tme PWA sstems are ver smlar to lnear sstems. In fat the onl dfferene between lnear and affne sstems s the presene of a onstant term n state eqatons. Gven the sope of ths onferene manl on sstem theor and smlaton, ths paper wll be not so mh onerned wth the ontrol tself bt t wll manl fos on the ablt of PWA modelng formalsm to desrbe omplex nonlnear behavor and n ths wa to serve as a stable bass for the ontroller desgn. The paper wll se a ase std of a power plant boler that was gven n [5] as a benhmark for nonlnear ontroller desgn. Ths boler s onsderabl nonlnear and ts approxmaton wth a sngle lnear model s learl not satsfator. However, t wll be shown that ts dnams an adeqatel be desrbed wth a PWA model. Ths model an then sbseqentl be sed as a bass for hbrd model predtve ontroller desgn. ISSN: ISBN:

2 Proeedngs of the 8th WSEAS Internatonal Conferene on SYSTEM SCIENCE and SIMULATION n ENGINEERING Nonlnear boler model The boler onsdered s of the drm boler tpe. Its strtre as desrbed n [5] s shown n Fg.. The man ontrol objetves assoated wth the boler ontrol are the followng. Steam pressre mst be mantaned on the desred vale despte load varatons. At the same tme the desred level of water n the drm mst also be kept at desred vale. The fel/ar rato n the ombston hamber mst respet safet, effen and eologal reqrements. Fg. Shemat strtre of the drm boler [5]. The nonlnear ontrol orented boler model pblshed n [5] n explt form s gven b eqatons (-8, where s the measred drm pressre (ps, s measred oxgen level (%, s the drm water level (n and s the steam flow rate (kg/s; x s the drm pressre state (kg/m, x s the exess oxgen level state (%, x s the sstem fld denst (kg/m and x s the exogenos varable related to the load dstrbane ntenst. Manplated varables,, are the fel flow rate, the ar flow rate and the feed water flow rate wth normalzed vales between (-. 8 x& ( ( 9 / t x t x ( t ( x& t x t ( ( x ( t 5 ( t x ( t x ( t x( t ( t ( t x ( t ( t 5x ( t ( t x ( t 5 ( x& ( x & ( (5 ( ( t 7x 7x 7x x [ 75x 7 ][ 77x ] x [ x 78 ] ( t [ x ] x ( t ( (8 The nmeral vales of the oeffents of ths model are gven n Table. Table : Coeffents of the nonlnear model For the omparson between lnearzed and nonlnear model, the lnearzed model arond the nomnal operatng pont (9 reommended n [5] was ompted. The resltng matres are gven b (-. The smlaton reslts n Fgs -5 onfrm that sgnfant dfferenes between the responses of the nonlnear and the lnear model arse f the plant operatng pont s not lose to the nomnal operatng pont. T x [ ] T [ ] [ ] T (9 ISSN: ISBN:

3 Proeedngs of the 8th WSEAS Internatonal Conferene on SYSTEM SCIENCE and SIMULATION n ENGINEERING A p B p C p D p ( ( ( ( PWA model of the boler Peewse-Affne sstems are sstems whose dnams are affne and an be dfferent n dfferent parts of the state-npt spae. The general form of a dsrete-tme PWA sstem s gven b x( k M x( k N( k f ( ( k Cx( k D( k g where eah dnams,...n PWA s atve n a polhedral partton D that s defned b gard lnes desrbed b x C G x( k G ( k G (5 Then the dnams represented b matres and vetors [[M, N, f, C, D, g ] s atve n the regon of state-npt spae that satsfes onstrants (5. A ver mportant part of the development of the PWA model from nonlnear boler model s to fnd a stable set of representatve operatng ponts arond whh the ndvdal affne models are reated. One possble solton s to base ths seleton on the vales of the npt varables, bt smlatons have shown that t does not lead to the rght reslt. In the nonlnear model eqatons, n aordane wth [], the state varable x has the man nflene on nonlneart. Frthermore we have verfed expermentall, that state varable x also has a sgnfant nflene on the lnearzed model. On the bass of these fats, the x (the drm pressre state and x (the exess oxgen level state were hosen for the operaton ponts segmentaton. x vales are from to kg/m wth the step kg/m, x vales are from - to % wth the step sze.5%. The stead state s gven b the sstem of the followng for eqatons 8 ( 9 / x t x ( t ( x t ( x ( t 5 ( t x ( t x( t ( x ( t ( t (7 x t (8 (9 These eqatons are for n nmber however the nlde onl three nknowns bease the do not nlde state varable x. For ths reason ths state varable s set to the same vale as gven n nomnal operatng pont (9. Then t s possble to ompte a set of representatve operatng ponts (note: the ponts whh are not phsall realzable are not onsdered. For ever operatng pont the lnearzed model n the form ( was reated and gard lnes n the form (5 were ompted. Valdt of eah lnear model s: ( x x x ( x.5 x x.5 ( Fnall, ths ontnos tme PWA model s onverted to the dsrete tme wth samplng perod s. The dsretzaton s done b dsretzng eah partal model separatel assmng zero order hold at the npts. Sstem (9 mst fnall be onverted to dsrete tme. Ths s done b dsretzng eah partal model separatel assmng zero order hold at the npts. Control Sstems Toolbox for Matlab has no rotne for dsretzaton of affne sstems. However t an be easl derved that the formlae for N and f n ( have the same form N e Tv ATv e A B d Tv ATv A ; f e e od ( Hene the omptaton of dsretzed model s possble b sng d ommand frst wth argments (A, B, C, D to obtan N and then wth argments (A, o, C, to obtan f. Comparson wth the Nonlnear Model For valdaton of the PWA model, step responses of the PWA model and the nonlnear model to a set of smlated npt sgnals were ompared. Intal ondtons were gven b the nomnal operatng pont (9. The hanges of npt varables are gven n Table. The smlatons were performed sng the blok of ISSN: ISBN:

4 Proeedngs of the 8th WSEAS Internatonal Conferene on SYSTEM SCIENCE and SIMULATION n ENGINEERING PWA dnamal sstem that s avalable n Mltparametr Toolbox for Matlab []. Table Smlated hanges of manplated varables Fg. ts ts t9s ts ts % -9.% % % -9.% % % Fg. ts ts t9s ts ts % -.% % % -.% % % Fg. ts t7s ts ts -.% 5% -.% 5% -8% Fg.5 ts t8s ts -.% % -.% % % The responses are gven n the respetve fgres. Fg.. Comparson of the nonlnear model, PWA model and sngle lnearzed model Fg.. Comparson of the nonlnear model, PWA model and sngle lnearzed model Fg.. Comparson of the nonlnear model, PWA model and sngle lnearzed model ISSN: ISBN:

5 Proeedngs of the 8th WSEAS Internatonal Conferene on SYSTEM SCIENCE and SIMULATION n ENGINEERING 5 Conlson It was shown n ths paper sng a ase std of a drm boler that PWA modelng s an adeqate wa to express the dnams of omplex nonlnear sstems. It has an mportant onseqene. The desgn of model predtve ontrol based on PWA models s easer and better developed that relatvel omplated fll nonlnear MPC. Ths the paper shows that hbrd MPC based on PWA models whh was orgnall developed for the ontrol of hbrd sstems an be appled also to plants that do not exhbt hbrd phenomena bt that are desrbed b omplated nonlnear models. Aknowledgement: Ths researh has been spported b the Czeh Sene Fondaton wthn projet /7/7. Fg.5. Comparson of the nonlnear model, PWA model and sngle lnearzed model It an easl be observed from these smlatons that the responses of sngle lnearzed model beome nreasngl nadeqate wth nreasng dstane from the nomnal operatng pont. All responses are almost ndstngshable n Fg. where the npt hanges are small; however the beome qte onsderable n Fgs -5 where the magntdes of npt hanges are hgher. On the other hand, the responses of PWA model are almost dental wth the responses of nonlnear model regardless of the magntdes of the npt hanges. In ths wa, t beomes evdent that PWA modelng s a stable wa to express omplated nonlnear dnams. Ths reslt shown here n the ase of omplated nonlnear drm-boler s smlar to the reslts aheved n the ase of three stage power plant reheater [] and omplex laborator sale plant wth hbrd dnams []. Referenes: [] Hlava, J., PWA modellng and oordnated ontnos and logal ontrol of a laborator sale plant wth hbrd dnams, Preprnts of IFAC Internatonal Smposm on Advaned Control of Chemal Proesses ADCHEM 9, Istanbl, Trke Jl 9, pp. -5. [] Hlava J., Hbrd modellng and ontrol of a power plant three-stage reheater, Preprnts of the rd IFAC Conferene on Analss and Desgn of Hbrd Sstems, pp. -7, Zaragoza, Span, September 9 [] Jzhen L, Cafen F and Wen Tan, Analss and Control of A Benhmark Boler, 5 Internatonal Conferene on Control and Atomaton (ICCA, Vols. and, 5, pp [] Kvasna, M., P. Greder, M. Baot & Morar M., Mlt-Parametr Toolbox (MPT, HSCC (Hbrd Sstems: Comptaton and Control, pp. 8-, Sprnger Verlag,. [5] G. Pellegrnett and J. Bentsman, Nonlnear Control Orented Boler Modelng: A Benhmark Problem for Controller Desgn, IEEE Transatons on Control Sstems Tehnolog, Vol., No., 99, pp [] Qn S. J. and Badgwell T. A. A srve of ndstral model predtve ontrol tehnolog, Control Engneerng Prate, vol., Isse 7, Jl, pp [7] Sontag, E. (98, Nonlnear reglaton: The peewse lnear approah, IEEE Transatons on Atomat Control, vol., no., pp ISSN: ISBN:

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