Title : 
Fuzzy supervisor and feedforward control of a solar power plant using accessible disturbances
         
        
            Author : 
Cardoso, A.L. ; Henriques, J. ; Dourado, A.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. de Eng. Inf., Univ. of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
         
        
        
            fDate : 
Aug. 31 1999-Sept. 3 1999
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A fuzzy switching supervisor PID control approach is developed and applied to a distributed collector field of a solar power plant. To deal with the effects of fast and unexpected deviations on the solar radiation and on the inlet oil temperature the introduction of a feedforward compensator is also investigated. Simulation and experimental results, obtained at the Plataforma Solar de Almería (Spain), are presented showing the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
         
        
            Keywords : 
compensation; feedforward; fuzzy control; solar absorber-convertors; solar power stations; solar radiation; three-term control; accessible disturbance; distributed collector field; feedforward compensator; feedforward control; fuzzy supervisor; fuzzy switching supervisor PID control approach; inlet oil temperature; solar power plant; solar radiation; Feedforward neural networks; Mathematical model; Solar radiation; Switches; Temperature control; Feedforward control; Fuzzy supervisor; Neural networks; Solar power plants; Switching PID control;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Control Conference (ECC), 1999 European
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Karlsruhe
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-3-9524173-5-5