Control Design for a Pressurized Water Reactor
Pascale Bendotti and Bobby Bodenheimer
Abstract
The applicability of employing a parameter-dependent control to a
nuclear pressurized water reactor is investigated and is compared to
that of using an H 1 control. A linear time-invariant controller
cannot maintain performance over the entire operating range. The
parameter- dependent synthesis technique produces a controller which
achieves speci ed performance against the worst-case time variation of
a measurable parameter which enters the plant in a linear fractional
manner. The plant can thus have widely varying dynamics over the
operating range. The controllers designed perform well over the entire
operating range.
Bobby Bodenheimer 
Last modified: Thu Oct 28 10:15:50 1999