Incremental State-Space Model Predictive Control of a Fresnel Solar Collector Field
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Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática, Universidad de Sevilla, Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n., 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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Centro Mixto CIESOL, ceiA3, Departamento de Informática, Universidad de Almería, Ctra. Sacramento s/n, 04120 Almería, Spain
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Energies 2019, 12(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12010003
Received: 16 November 2018 / Revised: 11 December 2018 / Accepted: 17 December 2018 / Published: 20 December 2018
Model predictive control has been demonstrated to be one of the most efficient control techniques for solar power systems. An incremental offset-free state-space Model Predictive Controller (MPC) is developed for the Fresnel collector field located at the solar cooling plant installed on the roof of the Engineering School of Sevilla. A robust Luenberger observer is used for estimating the states of the plant which cannot be measured. The proposed strategy is tested on a nonlinear distributed parameter model of the Fresnel collector field. Its performance is compared to that obtained with a gain-scheduling generalized predictive controller. A real test carried out at the real plant is presented, showing that the proposed strategy achieves a very good performance.
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Camacho, E.F.; Gallego, A.J.; Sanchez, A.J.; Berenguel, M. Incremental State-Space Model Predictive Control of a Fresnel Solar Collector Field. Energies 2019, 12, 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12010003
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Camacho EF, Gallego AJ, Sanchez AJ, Berenguel M. Incremental State-Space Model Predictive Control of a Fresnel Solar Collector Field. Energies. 2019; 12(1):3. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12010003
Chicago/Turabian StyleCamacho, Eduardo F.; Gallego, Antonio J.; Sanchez, Adolfo J.; Berenguel, Manuel. 2019. "Incremental State-Space Model Predictive Control of a Fresnel Solar Collector Field" Energies 12, no. 1: 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12010003
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