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Model Predictive Control
Model predictive control (MPC) is an advanced method of process control that is used to control a process while satisfying a set of constraints. It has been in use in the process industries in chemical plants and oil refineries since the 1980s. In recent years it has also been used in power system balancing models and in power electronics. Model predictive controllers rely on dynamic models of the process, most often linear empirical models obtained by system identification. The main advantage of MPC is the fact that it allows the current timeslot to be optimized, while keeping future timeslots in account. This is achieved by optimizing a finite time-horizon, but only implementing the current timeslot and then optimizing again, repeatedly, thus differing from a linear–quadratic regulator ( LQR). Also MPC has the ability to anticipate future events and can take control actions accordingly. PID controllers do not have this predictive ability. MPC is nearly universally implemented as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Process Control
An industrial process control in continuous production processes is a discipline that uses industrial control systems to achieve a production level of consistency, economy and safety which could not be achieved purely by human manual control. It is implemented widely in industries such as automotive, mining, dredging, oil refining, pulp and paper manufacturing, chemical processing and power generating plants. There is a wide range of size, type and complexity, but it enables a small number of operators to manage complex processes to a high degree of consistency. The development of large industrial process control systems was instrumental in enabling the design of large high volume and complex processes, which could not be otherwise economically or safely operated. The applications can range from controlling the temperature and level of a single process vessel, to a complete chemical processing plant with several thousand control loops. History Early process control breakthrou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalman Filter
For statistics and control theory, Kalman filtering, also known as linear quadratic estimation (LQE), is an algorithm that uses a series of measurements observed over time, including statistical noise and other inaccuracies, and produces estimates of unknown variables that tend to be more accurate than those based on a single measurement alone, by estimating a joint probability distribution over the variables for each timeframe. The filter is named after Rudolf E. Kálmán, who was one of the primary developers of its theory. This digital filter is sometimes termed the ''Stratonovich–Kalman–Bucy filter'' because it is a special case of a more general, nonlinear filter developed somewhat earlier by the Soviet mathematician Ruslan Stratonovich. In fact, some of the special case linear filter's equations appeared in papers by Stratonovich that were published before summer 1960, when Kalman met with Stratonovich during a conference in Moscow. Kalman filtering has numerous tech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accuracy
Accuracy and precision are two measures of ''observational error''. ''Accuracy'' is how close a given set of measurements (observations or readings) are to their ''true value'', while ''precision'' is how close the measurements are to each other. In other words, ''precision'' is a description of ''random errors'', a measure of statistical variability. ''Accuracy'' has two definitions: # More commonly, it is a description of only '' systematic errors'', a measure of statistical bias of a given measure of central tendency; low accuracy causes a difference between a result and a true value; ISO calls this ''trueness''. # Alternatively, ISO defines accuracy as describing a combination of both types of observational error (random and systematic), so high accuracy requires both high precision and high trueness. In the first, more common definition of "accuracy" above, the concept is independent of "precision", so a particular set of data can be said to be accurate, precise, both, or n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quantization (signal Processing)
Quantization, in mathematics and digital signal processing, is the process of mapping input values from a large set (often a continuous set) to output values in a (countable) smaller set, often with a finite number of elements. Rounding and truncation are typical examples of quantization processes. Quantization is involved to some degree in nearly all digital signal processing, as the process of representing a signal in digital form ordinarily involves rounding. Quantization also forms the core of essentially all lossy compression algorithms. The difference between an input value and its quantized value (such as round-off error) is referred to as quantization error. A device or algorithmic function that performs quantization is called a quantizer. An analog-to-digital converter is an example of a quantizer. Example For example, rounding a real number x to the nearest integer value forms a very basic type of quantizer – a ''uniform'' one. A typical (''mid-tread'') uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convex Polytope
A convex polytope is a special case of a polytope, having the additional property that it is also a convex set contained in the n-dimensional Euclidean space \mathbb^n. Most texts. use the term "polytope" for a bounded convex polytope, and the word "polyhedron" for the more general, possibly unbounded object. Others''Mathematical Programming'', by Melvyn W. Jeter (1986) p. 68/ref> (including this article) allow polytopes to be unbounded. The terms "bounded/unbounded convex polytope" will be used below whenever the boundedness is critical to the discussed issue. Yet other texts identify a convex polytope with its boundary. Convex polytopes play an important role both in various branches of mathematics and in applied areas, most notably in linear programming. In the influential textbooks of Grünbaum and Ziegler on the subject, as well as in many other texts in discrete geometry, convex polytopes are often simply called "polytopes". Grünbaum points out that this is solely to avoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parametric Programming
Parametric programming is a type of mathematical optimization, where the optimization problem is solved as a function of one or multiple parameters. Developed in parallel to sensitivity analysis, its earliest mention can be found in a thesis from 1952. Since then, there have been considerable developments for the cases of multiple parameters, presence of integer variables as well as nonlinearities. Notation In general, the following optimization problem is considered : \begin J^*(\theta) = & \min_ f(x,\theta) \\ & \text g(x,\theta)\leq 0.\\ & \theta \in \Theta \subset \mathbb R^m \end where x is the optimization variable, \theta are the parameters, f(x,\theta) is the objective function and g(x,\theta) denote the constraints. J^* denotes a function whose output is the optimal value of the objective function f. The set \Theta is generally referred to as parameter space. The optimal value (i.e. result of solving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Distributed Parameter System
In control theory, a distributed-parameter system (as opposed to a lumped-parameter system) is a system whose state space is infinite-dimensional. Such systems are therefore also known as infinite-dimensional systems. Typical examples are systems described by partial differential equations or by delay differential equations. Linear time-invariant distributed-parameter systems Abstract evolution equations Discrete-time With ''U'', ''X'' and ''Y'' Hilbert spaces and ''A\,'' ∈ ''L''(''X''), ''B\,'' ∈ ''L''(''U'', ''X''), ''C\,'' ∈ ''L''(''X'', ''Y'') and ''D\,'' ∈ ''L''(''U'', ''Y'') the following difference equations determine a discrete-time linear time-invariant system: :x(k+1)=Ax(k)+Bu(k)\, :y(k)=Cx(k)+Du(k)\, with ''x\,'' (the state) a sequence with values in ''X'', ''u\,'' (the input or control) a sequence with values in ''U'' and ''y\,'' (the output) a sequence with values in ''Y''. Continuous-time The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preconditioning
In mathematics, preconditioning is the application of a transformation, called the preconditioner, that conditions a given problem into a form that is more suitable for numerical solving methods. Preconditioning is typically related to reducing a condition number of the problem. The preconditioned problem is then usually solved by an iterative method. Preconditioning for linear systems In linear algebra and numerical analysis, a preconditioner P of a matrix A is a matrix such that P^A has a smaller condition number than A. It is also common to call T=P^ the preconditioner, rather than P, since P itself is rarely explicitly available. In modern preconditioning, the application of T=P^, i.e., multiplication of a column vector, or a block of column vectors, by T=P^, is commonly performed in a matrix-free fashion, i.e., where neither P, nor T=P^ (and often not even A) are explicitly available in a matrix form. Preconditioners are useful in iterative methods to solve a linear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collocation Method
In mathematics, a collocation method is a method for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations and integral equations. The idea is to choose a finite-dimensional space of candidate solutions (usually polynomials up to a certain degree) and a number of points in the domain (called ''collocation points''), and to select that solution which satisfies the given equation at the collocation points. Ordinary differential equations Suppose that the ordinary differential equation : y'(t) = f(t,y(t)), \quad y(t_0)=y_0, is to be solved over the interval _0,t_0+c_k h/math>. Choose c_k from 0 ≤ ''c''1< ''c''2< … < ''c''''n'' ≤ 1. The corresponding (polynomial) collocation method approximates the solution ''y'' by the polynomial ''p'' of degree ''n'' which satisfies the initial condition , and the differential equation at all ''collocation points' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Direct Multiple Shooting Method
In the area of mathematics known as numerical ordinary differential equations, the direct multiple shooting method is a numerical method for the solution of boundary value problems. The method divides the interval over which a solution is sought into several smaller intervals, solves an initial value problem in each of the smaller intervals, and imposes additional matching conditions to form a solution on the whole interval. The method constitutes a significant improvement in distribution of nonlinearity and numerical stability over single shooting methods. Single shooting methods Shooting methods can be used to solve boundary value problems (BVP) like : y''(t) = f(t, y(t), y'(t)), \quad y(t_a) = y_a, \quad y(t_b) = y_b, in which the time points ''t''a and ''t''b are known and we seek :y(t),\quad t \in (t_a,t_b). Single shooting methods proceed as follows. Let ''y''(''t''; ''t''0, ''y''0) denote the solution of the initial value problem (IVP) : y''(t) = f(t, y(t), y'(t)) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting Method
In numerical analysis, the shooting method is a method for solving a boundary value problem by reducing it to an initial value problem. It involves finding solutions to the initial value problem for different initial conditions until one finds the solution that also satisfies the boundary conditions of the boundary value problem. In layman's terms, one "shoots" out trajectories in different directions from one boundary until one finds the trajectory that "hits" the other boundary condition. Mathematical description Suppose one wants to solve the boundary-value problem y''(t) = f(t, y(t), y'(t)), \quad y(t_0) = y_0, \quad y(t_1) = y_1. Let y(t; a) solve the initial-value problem y''(t) = f(t, y(t), y'(t)), \quad y(t_0) = y_0, \quad y'(t_0) = a. If y(t_1; a) = y_1 , then y(t; a) is also a solution of the boundary-value problem. The shooting method is the process of solving the initial value problem for many different values of a until one finds the solution y(t; a) that sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
