Fractional-Order Water Level Control Based on PLC: Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation and Experimental Validation

Arkadiusz Mystkowski and Andrzej Kierdelewicz
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Arkadiusz Mystkowski: Department of Automatic Control and Robotics, Bialystok University of Technology, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland
Andrzej Kierdelewicz: Department of Automatic Control and Robotics, Bialystok University of Technology, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 11, 1-15

Abstract: An industrial-oriented water tank level control system with PLC- and Simulink-based fractional-order controller realizations is presented. The discrete fractional-order and integer-order PID implementations are realized via the PLC and Simulink simulator. The benefits of the fractional-order PID compared to the integer-order PID control are confirmed by the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations and experiments. HIL simulations are realized using real-time communication between PLC and Simulink. The fractional-order controller is obtained for a desired phase/gain margin and validated via HIL simulations and experimental measurements.

Keywords: fractional-order; PID-control; PLC; MPS station; HIL; Simulink/PLC communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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