Title
Nonlinear observer-based control with application to an anaerobic digestion process.
Abstract
This paper deals with the design of a new observer based control strategy for an Anaerobic Digestion (AD) process to track a desired reference trajectory. The target is to control the biogas production, and to subsequently integrate the biogas plants in a virtual power plant. The used model is a two-steps (acidogenesis-methanogenesis) mass balance nonlinear, which is a widely used AD process model. Since the AD processes experience a lack of physical sensors, an exponential nonlinear observer is designed to estimate and update the internal state of the process. Based on the estimated states, a state feedback controller is used to track any given and admissible desired trajectory with respect to an H∞-optimality criterion. The observer-based controller parameters are designed by solving two (implicitly)-independent LMI conditions obtained by rigorous mathematical arguments based on a judicious use of Young relation and a reformulation of the Lipschitz property. A simulation study is provided to illustrate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed theoretical results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.ejcon.2018.09.012
European Journal of Control
Keywords
Field
DocType
Anaerobic digestion,LMI approach,Observer design,Reference trajectory tracking
Control theory,Nonlinear system,Optimality criterion,Full state feedback,Control theory,Lipschitz continuity,Virtual power plant,Observer (quantum physics),Mathematics,Trajectory
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
45
0947-3580
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Khadidja Chaib Draa100.34
Ali Zemouche223527.91
Marouane Alma37311.16
Holger Voos411834.98
Mohamed Darouach526142.82