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Controlling a quadruple tanks rig with PLCs as a Masters dissertation project
(10th IFAC Symposium Advances in Control Education The International Federation of Automatic Control, 2013-08) Carrasco, J.; Heath, W. P.; Rodriguez Li˜nan, M. C.; Carrasco, J.; Alli-Oke, R.; Abdel Kerim, O. A. R.; Rodriguez Gutierrez , S.
We report on a successful themed Masters level project. Ten students addressed a single multivariable control problem using a variety of control algorithms and hardware platforms. The use of an OPC server provides different control structures that can be used to design controllers with different specifications such as bandwith and noise rejection.
Themed project case study: quadruple tanks control with PLCs
(2013) Carrasco, J.; Heath, W. P.; Rodriguez Lin˜an, M. C.; Alli-Oke, Razak; Abdel Kerim, O. A. R.; Rodriguez Gutierrez, S.
themed project based on the control of a quadruple tank rig using PLCs has been successfully carried out as part of the MSc in Advanced Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Manchester. The themed project involves ten students who address a single multivariable control challenge under the supervision of two academics and four PhD students. As every student is required to write their own MSc dissertation, the key point is the possibility of using different control techniques to be implemented on different hardware platforms.