Controlling a quadruple tanks rig with PLCs as a Masters dissertation project

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2013-08
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10th IFAC Symposium Advances in Control Education The International Federation of Automatic Control
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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.
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Staff Publication
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Teaching aids for control engineering,, programmable logic controllers,, decoupling precompensator,, lead-lag compensation,, H1-control,, fuzzy logic control,, optimal control,, sliding mode control,, PID control,, model predictive control,, internal model control.
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