Linear parameter-varying versus linear time-invariant control design for a pressurized water reactor

✍ Scribed by Pascale Bendotti; Bobby Bodenheimer

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 287 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1049-8923
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1239(199911)9:13<969::aid-rnc446>3.0.co;2-b

✦ Synopsis

The applicability of employing a parameter-dependent control to a nuclear pressurized water reactor is investigated and is compared to that of using an H control. A linear time-invariant controller cannot maintain performance over the entire operating range. The parameter-dependent synthesis technique produces a controller which achieves speci"ed performance against the worst-case time variation of a measurable parameter which enters the plant in a linear fractional manner. The plant can thus have widely varying dynamics over the operating range. The controllers designed perform well over the entire operating range.