Possible approaches of disturbance compensation of time-delayed systems using predictive control

Abstract

Many processes in industry exhibit time-delay in their dynamic behavior. Time-delay is mainly caused by the time required to transport energy, information or mass, but it can be caused by processing time as well. There are also many cases when compensation of measurable disturbance is required. In light of these facts, the goal of this paper is to design predictive algorithm for control of time-delayed systems with the possibility of measurable disturbance compensation. Basically this paper deals with the essential principles of model predictive control (MPC), design process of the predictive controller, calculation of control law and identification of control process. Identification of control process is also an important part of MPC. The next section describes simulation and also real-time verification of designed regulator which was verified in MATLAB/SIMULINK. © ECMS Valeri M. Mladenov, Petia Georgieva, Grisha Spasov, Galidiya Petrova (Editors).