ROBUST CONTROL OF A CHEMICAL REACTOR IN AN UNSTABLE STEADY STATE

BAKOŠOVÁ, M.; PUNA, D.

Abstract

In this paper, the possibility to stabilize a chemical reactor in an unstable steady state using robust static output feedback will be presented. The reactor is an exothermic continuous-time stirred tank reactor (CSTR) with two parallel first-order chemical reactions. The goal is to find robust stabilizing output feedback controller, which can guarantee a control cost. The problem of finding of a stabilizing robust controller can be transformed into solving a set of linear matrix inequalities.

Coresponding author e-mail: monika[dot]bakosova[at]stuba[dot]sk

Session: Robust and Adaptive Control