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Title: | Closed-Loop Prediction for Robust and Stabilizing Optimization and Control |
Authors: | MacKinnon, Lloyd |
Advisor: | Swartz, Christopher |
Department: | Chemical Engineering |
Keywords: | Optimization;Model Predictive Control;Real-Time Optimization;Optimization under Uncertainty;Stabilizing Control;Robust Model Predictive Control;Decomposition |
Publication Date: | 2023 |
Abstract: | The control and optimization of chemical plants is a major area of research as it has the potential to improve both economic output and plant safety. It is often prudent to separate control and optimization tasks of varying complexities and time scales, creating a hierarchical control structure. Within this structure, it is beneficial for one control layer to be able to account for the effects of other layers. A clear example of this, and the basis of this work, is closed-loop dynamic real-time optimization (CL-DRTO), in which an economic optimization method considers both the plant behavior and the effects of an underlying model predictive controller (MPC). This technique can be expanded on to allow its use and methods to be employed in a greater diversity of applications, particularly unstable and uncertain plant environments. First, this work seeks to improve on existing robust MPC techniques, which incorporate plant uncertainty via direct multi-scenario modelling, by also including future MPC behavior through the use of the CL modelling technique of CL-DRTO. This allows the CL robust MPC to account for how future MPC executions will be affected by uncertain plant behavior. Second, Lyapunov MPC (LMPC) is a generally nonconvex technique which focuses on effective control of plants which exhibit open-loop unstable behavior. A new convex LMPC formulation is presented here which can be readily embedded into a CL-DRTO scheme. Next, uncertainty handling is incorporated directly into a CL-DRTO via a robust multi-scenario method to allow for the economic optimization to take uncertain plant behavior into account while also modelling MPC behavior under plant uncertainty. Finally, the robust CL-DRTO method is computationally expensive, so a decomposition method which separates the robust CL-DRTO into its respective scenario subproblems is developed to improve computation time, especially for large optimization problems. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/28623 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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