Identification and Hinf Control for a Pressurized Water Reactor
Pascale Bendotti and Bobby Bodenheimer
Abstract
The objective of this paper was to design controllers for a
pressurized water reactor using model based control techniques. To
this end, the physical system was identified from experimental data
using a multi-input multi-output state-space description; an Hinf
controller was designed using a lower order model of the plant. Of
particular importance, the frequency weighting functions were chosen
to reflect the robust stability and nominal performance
requirements. Although a nonlinear controller is required, the results
demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller in a
relatively wide operating range
Bobby Bodenheimer 
Last modified: Fri Jun 27 13:23:53 CDT 2003