Interval Power Integration-Based Nonlinear Suppression Control for Uncertain Systems and Its Application to Superheated Steam Temperature Control

Gang Zhao (), Hongxia Zhu and Hang Yi
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Gang Zhao: School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Hongxia Zhu: School of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211167, China
Hang Yi: Zhejiang Energy R&D Institute Co., Ltd., Hangzhou 311121, China

Energies, 2025, vol. 18, issue 16, 1-32

Abstract: The control of many industrial processes, such as superheated steam temperature control, exhibits poor robustness and degraded accuracy in the presence of model parameter uncertainties. This paper addresses this issue by developing a novel interval power integration-based nonlinear suppression scheme for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with unknown but bounded parameters. The efficacy of this approach is specifically demonstrated for the superheated steam temperature control in thermal power plants. By integrating Lyapunov stability theory and homogeneous system theory, this method extends the traditional homogeneous degree theory to the interval domain, establishes interval boundary conditions for time-varying parameters, and constructs a Lyapunov function with interval numbers to recursively design the controller. Furthermore, the interval monotonic homogeneous degree and an admissibility index are introduced to ensure system stability under parameter uncertainties. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through numerical simulations of superheated steam temperature control. Simulation results demonstrate that the method effectively suppresses nonlinearities and achieves robust asymptotic stability, even when model parameters vary within bounded intervals. In the varying-exponent scenario, the proposed controller achieved an Integral of Absolute Error (IAE) of 70.78 and a convergence time of 37s for the superheated steam temperature control. This represents a performance improvement of 42.79% in IAE and 53.16% in convergence time compared to a conventional PID controller, offering a promising solution for complex thermal processes with inherent uncertainties.

Keywords: nonlinear suppression; stability analysis; homogeneous system theory; superheated steam temperature (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: 2025
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