Title :
Design and implementation of temperature controller for solar furnace
Author :
Mythily, R.S. ; Devadhas, Glan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of E&I, Noorul Islam Coll. of Eng., Kumaracoil, India
Abstract :
This paper explores different control techniques to control the temperature of material samples in a solar furnace. Solar furnaces provide the means to concentrate solar radiation on samples placed at their foci. The objective of the system is to control the temperature of the samples for testing purpose and the solar furnace are characterized to provide concentrated solar energy for testing applications. Control techniques including PI, PID, Fuzzy MPAC are implemented and simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of each methodology.
Keywords :
control engineering computing; control system synthesis; furnaces; fuzzy control; model reference adaptive control systems; neural nets; solar energy concentrators; solar heating; temperature control; three-term control; PID control; concentrated solar energy; fuzzy control; model reference adaptive controller; neural network MRAC; solar furnace; temperature controller design; Adaptation models; Furnaces; Mathematical model; Neural networks; Temperature control; Training; Linearization; Nearal network model predictive adaptive control; Solar furnace; Thermal stress test; fuzzy;
Conference_Titel :
Control, Instrumentation, Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCICCT), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kanyakumari
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4191-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICCICCT.2014.6992999
