Temperature control of a mold model using multiple-input multiple-output two degree-of-freedom generalized predictive control

This paper considers an application of two degree-of-freedom generalized predictive control (Two DOF GPC) to an aluminum mold model of temperature control experimental device. In our research, Two DOF GPC can achieve to design the output response for the aluminum plate model independently of modeling error or disturbance. The present study aims at controlling the temperature for various mold models in order to develop the proposed method for application to industry. Therefore, this paper shows an aluminum mold model, which we newly constructed, for temperature control by extending the conventional model. And we increased the number of input and output to examine the interference of heat with temperature control of the derived model by using two DOF GPC. The numerical examples are shown to verify the validity of the model and the proposed method.