Terminal Iterative Learning Control with Internal Model Control applied to the thermoforming reheat phase

Author

Gauthier, Guy ; boulet, benoit

Author_Institution

Dept. of Automated Production Eng., Ecole de Technol. Super., Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2009

fDate

23-25 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Terminal Iterative Learning Control (TILC) is a cycle-to-cycle control approach that can be used on a thermoforming oven. TILC automatically tunes the heater temperature setpoints so that the temperature at the surface of the plastic sheet tracks a desired temperature profile. Industrial thermoforming ovens can have a large number of temperature sensors (inputs) and heaters (outputs), which makes TILC design difficult. This paper presents the design of a TILC using the Internal Model Control (IMC) approach.

Keywords

adaptive control; iterative methods; learning systems; ovens; plastics industry; temperature control; thermoforming; cycle-to-cycle control approach; heater temperature setpoint; internal model control; plastic sheet surface temperature; terminal iterative learning control; thermoforming oven; thermoforming reheat phase; Automatic control; Control systems; Iterative algorithms; Iterative methods; Ovens; Plastics; Production engineering; Temperature control; Temperature sensors; Thermoforming; components; internal model control; terminal iterative learning control; thermoforming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AFRICON, 2009. AFRICON '09.

Conference_Location

Nairobi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3918-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3919-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AFRCON.2009.5308088

Filename

5308088