Abstract
This paper presents a robust control scheme for a distributed solar collector (DSC) field. As DSC are systems subjected to strong disturbances (mainly in solar radiation and inlet oil temperature), a series feedforward is used as a part of the plant, so that the system to be controlled has one input (fluid flow) and one output (outlet temperature) as the disturbances are partially compensated by the series feedforward term, so that the nonlinear plant is transformed into an uncertain linear system. The Quantitative Feedback Theory technique (QFT) has been used to design a control structure that guarantee desired control specifications, as settling time and maximum overshoot, under different operating conditions despite system uncertainties and disturbances. To account for input and output constraints, both an antireset-windup mechanism and a reference governor have been used. Experimental tests are presented.
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