Laboratory Software for the Three-Tank Benchmark System: From PID to Multi-Agent Fault-Tolerant Fractional Control

A Simulink application was developed to simulate and control the three-tank benchmark plant, widely used for demonstration purposes in Control Engineering and similar to many plants in the industry (e.g. waste-water treatment, breweries, refineries), but with a slow response. The software developed...

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Published inProcedia, social and behavioral sciences Vol. 46; pp. 1919 - 1923
Main Authors Vinagre, Goncalo, Valério, Duarte, Beirão, Pedro, da Costa, José Sá
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 2012
Subjects
fault-tolerant control
fractional control
multi-agent system
PID control
Simulink simulation
Three-tank benchmark system
multi-agent system
Simulink simulation
fault-tolerant control
PID control
Three-tank benchmark system
fractional control
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Summary:A Simulink application was developed to simulate and control the three-tank benchmark plant, widely used for demonstration purposes in Control Engineering and similar to many plants in the industry (e.g. waste-water treatment, breweries, refineries), but with a slow response. The software developed allows centralized and distributed control (using a multi-agent system over several computers), makes use of both PID (proportional-integral-derivative) and fractional PID controllers, and is robust to model misidentifications and communication failures. It can be used in classes to introduce many control strategies, from simple singleinput- single-output PID control to a complex multi-input-multi-output, multi-agent, fault-tolerant, fractional law control.
ISSN:1877-0428
1877-0428
DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.05.403