Predictive Control implementation in a PLC using the IEC 1131.3 programming standard

Author

Valencia-Palomo, G. ; Hilton, K.R. ; Rossiter, J.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom. Control & Syst. Eng., Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

23-26 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

1317

Lastpage

1322

Abstract

In this paper a novel implementation of a Generalized Predictive Controller (GPC) is presented; specifically the paper discusses programming of MPC in an industrial Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) software using the IEC 1131.3 programming standard. The algorithm was kept as simple as possible to overcome the capability problems of the hardware. Laboratory experiment tests were carried out to demonstrate the code on real hardware; in fact a first and second order bench-scale systems. The results of this work serve as an encouragement to further investigate the potential for developing simple predictive algorithms within off the shelf industrial standard hardware.

Keywords

IEC standards; control engineering computing; predictive control; programmable controllers; IEC 131.3 programming standard; MPC; first-order bench-scale system; generalized predictive controller; industrial PLC software; industrial programmable logic controller software; industrial standard hardware; second-order bench-scale system; Hardware; IEC standards; Prediction algorithms; Predictive control; Programming; GPC; IEC-1131.3; PLC; Predictive control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Conference (ECC), 2009 European

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

978-3-9524173-9-3

Type

conf

Filename

7074588