Teaching Antiwindup, Bumpless Transfer, and Split-Range Control

Authors

  • Serena H. Chung University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Richard D. Braatz University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Abstract

Industrial control systems must account for discrete process changes, such as actuator limitations and switching among linear controllers; otherwise poor performance of unsafe conditions can result. A weakness in undergraduate process control education is that students are not taught how to design control systems for handling discrete process changes. This paper, which serves as reading and discussion material in the undergraduate chemical process control course at the University of Illinois, is designed to teach students how to address such problems.

Author Biographies

Serena H. Chung, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Serena Chung received her BS in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign in 1998 and plans to pursue a PhD in chemical engineering. Her current research interests are in the modeling and control of crystallization.

Richard D. Braatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Richard Braatz received his BS from Oregon State University and his MS and PhD from the California Institute of Technology. After a postdoctoral year at DuPont, he became an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Illinois. His main research interests are in the modeling and control of complex systems.

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Published

1998-07-01

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 3 (1998): Summer 1998

Section

Manuscripts