Por décadas, a qualidade de produtos é determinada por testes em ambientes de laboratório, como testes de acelerados de vibração, ciclagem térmica, choque mecânicos ou térmicos, entre outros. Porém, mais recentemente um novo tipo de técnica tem adquirido a confiança de pesquisadores e projetistas. As técnicas conhecidas como HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) e HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening), ou seja, testes acelerados e amplificados que submetem produtos a condições severas, têm mostrado sua importância e eficiência no âmbito da detecção de falha em produtos ainda na fase de produção. Este trabalho tem por objetivo desenvolver e implementar um algoritmo de controle baseado em métodos heurísticos para ser usado em ensaios acelerados usando um Shaker eletrodinâmico. Este controlador deve ser robusto o suficiente para se adequar a possíveis efeitos de ressonância do shaker que podem vir a alterar a dinâmica do sistema, inviabilizando controles tradicionais com parâmetros fixos. Os resultados obtidos através de vários ensaios mostraram que ambos os sistemas de controle são eficientes, pois o erro entre o sinal desejado (tensão mecânica ou aceleração) e os medidos experimentalmente, tendem rapidamente a zero não apresentando sobressinais consideráveis ou erro em regime permanente, tanto para frequência fixa quanto para varredura de frequência. A comparação entre o controlador tradicional PID e o controle heurístico baseado em Lógica Fuzzy, que foram aplicados no shaker eletrodinâmico, comprova que, para mudanças na amplitude do sistema, o controle Fuzzy apresentou menor sobressinal, o que é mais favorável do ponto de vista mecânico. Logo, a metodologia proposta pode ser aplicada para ensaios HALT/HASS com o intuito de obter grandes vibrações e, por conseguinte tensões, para identificar possíveis falhas de projeto e então, poder corrigi-las. / For decades, product quality is determined by environmental tests, such as accelerated vibration tests, thermal cycling, mechanical or thermal shock, and others. However, more recently a new type of test has gained the trust of researchers and designers. Known techniques such as HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) and HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening), or accelerated and amplified testing that submit products to severe conditions have shown their importance in the efficiency and fault detection in products still in production phase. This study aims to develop and implement a control algorithm based on heuristic methods in order to be used in a system of accelerated tests in an electrodynamic shaker. This controller must be robust enough to fit the resonance effects of the shaker that it can change the system dynamic, invalidating traditional controls with fixed parameters. The results obtained through tests showed both control systems are efficient, because the error between desired signal (mechanical stress and acceleration) and the experimentally measured tend rapidly to zero, there aren’t overshoots or steady state errors, both for constant frequency and for sweep frequency. Comparing the PID traditional control and the Logic Fuzzy control, applied in electrodynamic shaker, we proved that to change system amplitude, the fuzzy control presented lower overshoot, that is favorable from the standpoint of mechanical. Therefore, the methodology proposed can be applied to HALT/HASS tests in order to obtain large vibrations and, consequently stress, to identify possible flaws in the design and correct them.

A presente proposta de estudo refere-se à identificação de modelo linear empírico para processo de transferência de oxigênio das bolhas de ar para o meio líquido, simulação para testes de controle e implementação de uma estratégia de controle em escala laboratorial em tempo real. Os ensaios de controle foram na unidade experimental (canal aberto) existente no laboratório de hidráulica ambiental o qual foi adaptado para aeração com sensores, atuadores, microcomputador, interface AD/DA. Foi testado o algoritmo de controle do tipo convencional PID (Proportional Integral Derivative control). Com os resultados obtidos da perturbação degrau na variável de entrada (alimentação do ar) foi possível identificar o sistema como um modelo de primeira ordem, suficiente para os propósitos de controle. Baseado na identificação, foi ajustado um controlador PID para implementação experimental. A principal contribuição desta pesquisa consistiu no emprego de uma estratégia de controle adequada na prática, ao processo de aeração. / The current study refers to the identification of an empirical linear model for the oxygen transfer process from air bubbles to liquid, control tests simulation and implementation of a control strategy at real time in laboratory scale. The control tests were carried out at the experimental unit (open channel) located at the environmental hydraulic laboratory which was adapted to aeration process with sensors, actuators, microcomputer, AD/DA interface. The classic PID (Proportional Integral Derivative control) algorithm was tested. With results from step response of input variable (air feeding) it was possible to identify the system as a first order model, enough for the control purposes. Based on the identification, a PID controller was adjusted for the experimental implementation. The main contribution of this work consisted of the employment of an appropriate control strategy to the aeration process in practice.

Este trabalho apresenta todo um projeto de um sistema de supervisão e controle de um trocador de calor, desde os ensaios experimentais para a elaboração de um modelo matemático até a implementação do sistema de controle e supervisão em microcomputador. O sistema implementado consiste de um software didático e um sistema de aquisição de dados que irão realizar a supervisão e controle de um trocador de calor tipo casco e tubos. Neste software didático é possível implementar o controle PID e suas variações PI-D e I-PD além de permitir a implementação do sistema de controle adaptativo estrutura gain scheduling o qual muda os parâmetros de um controle PID de acordo com a mudança da dinâmica do trocador de calor. Como o trocador de calor apresenta um tempo morto em sua dinâmica, então optou-se por adicionar ao software didático um controle com algoritmo preditivo estrutura Preditor de Smith desta forma é possível realizar ensaios com e sem o algoritmo preditivo para uma comparação de resultados. Este sistema de supervisão e controle do trocador de calor poderá ser usado como ferramenta didática para alunos de diversos cursos, onde é possível realizar ensaios de diferentes estruturas de controle para posterior comparação e estudo de seus resultados. Resultados práticos de todas as estruturas de controle que o software implementa são apresentados e comparados neste trabalho. / This work presents thorough a supervision and control system project of a heat exchanger, from the experimental tests for the mathematical model rising to the control system implementation and supervision in a microcomputer. The implemented system consists of didactic software and a data acquisition system that will perform the supervision and control of a heat exchanger shell and tube type. In this didactic software it is possible to implement the PID control and its variations PI-D and I-PD besides allowing the implementation of the adaptive control system gain scheduling structure, which changes the PID control parameters according to the changes of the heat exchanger dynamics. As the heat exchanger presents dead time on its dynamics, it was opted to add to the didactic software a control with Smith Predictor structure predictive algorithm, thus it is possible to perform tests with and without the predictive algorithm for result comparison. This supervision and control system of the heat exchanger will be able to be used as a didactic tool for students from several courses, where it is possible to perform tests with different control structures to further comparison and study of its results. Pratical results of all the control structures that the software implements are presented and compared in this work.

Legislators steadily increase the demands on lowered emissions from heavy duty vehicles. To meet these demands it is necessary to integrate technologies like Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) and Variable Geometry Turbochargers (VGT) together with advanced control systems. A control structure with PID controllers and selectors is proposed and investigated for coordinated control of EGR valve and VGT position in heavy duty diesel engines. Main control goals are to fulfill the legislated emission levels, to reduce the fuel consumption, and to fulfill safe operation of the turbocharger. These goals are achieved through regulation of normalized oxygen/fuel ratio and intake manifold EGR-fraction. These are chosen as main performance variables since they are strongly coupled to the emissions, compared to manifold pressure or air mass flow, which makes it easy to adjust set-points depending on e.g. measured emissions during an emission calibration process. In addition a mechanism for fuel efficient operation is incorporated in the structure, this is achieved by minimizing the pumping work. To design a successful control structure, a mean value model of a diesel engine is developed and validated. The intended applications of the model are system analysis, simulation, and development of model-based control systems. Model equations and tuning methods for the model parameters are described for each subsystem in the model. Static and dynamic validations of the entire model show mean relative errors that are less than 12%. Based on a system analysis of the model, a key characteristic behind the control structure is that oxygen/fuel ratio is controlled by the EGR-valve and EGR-fraction by the VGT-position, in order to handle a sign reversal in the system from VGT to oxygen/fuel ratio. For efficient calibration an automatic controller tuning method is developed. The controller objectives are captured in a cost function, that is evaluated utilizing a method choosing representative transients. The performance is evaluated on the European Transient Cycle. It is demonstrated how the weights in the cost function influence behavior, and that the tuning method is important in order to improve the control performance compared to if only a standard method is used. It is also demonstrated that the controller structure performs well regarding all control objectives. In combination with its efficient tuning, the controller structure thus fulfills all requirements for successful application. / Report code: LiU-TEK-LIC-2006:52.

This diploma thesis deals with the design and control of the mobile robot with caterpillar tracks on the basis of information obtained via infrared thermocouple. The work includes firmware implementation for robot chassis control and communication with the sensors used. The functionality of the proposed system is demonstrated on a robotic task when the robot is searching the source of excessive heat within his surroundings. The theoretical part deals with the basic description of the common robotic chassis, contactless temperature measurement, further analysis of the components used and their principles. The practical part is devoted to the firmware implementation and detailed description of selected problems. In the end of the thesis there is a summarization of the achievements and the success of the robot while detection of the suspicious objects with high surface temperature.

This study aimed to develop and evaluate a method to obtain a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller. The controller is for a control surface that controls pitch motion, by using data from flight tests with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Finding a suitable method to develop the controllers is essential to make the UAV autonomous, whilst being stable and controllable. Before developing the PID, data from test flights were used to model a transfer function for the control surface with MATLAB's toolbox for system identification. Thereafter, using the transfer function, the PID was developed by using MATLAB’s toolbox for control systems. The whole method was evaluated by studying the rise time, settling time, and overshoot for the PID, and studying how well the transfer function fits with the flight data. The method of modeling the pitch motion with system identification and finding the PID gains has good potential to simplify the process of finding a PID controller. However, to acquire an accurate model for the pitch motion, which in turn can give a well-performing PID, an improved data sampling was suggested. Additionally, flight tests conducted before and after PID tuning, and in different conditions are recommended to be done in future studies. The flight test would work as a validation for the model to acquire a robust PID that performs as expected. / Syftet med denna studie var att utveckla och utvärdera en metod för att hitta en proportionerlig integrerande deriverande (PID) regulator. Regulatorn är för en kontrollyta som kontrollerar tipprörelsen genom att använda data från flygtester med en drönare. Att hitta en lämplig metod för att utveckla regulatorer är nödvändigt för att göra drönaren autonom, samtidigt som den är stabil och kontrollerbar. Innan PID:n utvecklades användes data från flygtester för att modellera överföringsfunktionen för kontrollytan med MATLAB:s programvara för systemidentifiering. Därefter, genom att använda överföringsfunktionen, utvecklades PID:n med MATLAB:s programvara för reglersystem. Hela metoden utvärderades genom att studera stigtid, insvängningstid och översläng för PID regulatorn, samt studera hur väl överföringsfunktionen modellerar flygdata. Metoden för att modellera tipprörelsen och att hitta PID förstärkningarna har en god potential att förenkla processen av att hitta en PID regulator. Däremot för att få en precis modell för tipprörelsen, vilket i sin tur kan ge en välpresterande PID, föreslogs det att förbättra datainsamlingen. Dessutom rekommenderades det i framtida studier att flygtester genomförs i olika förhållande, både före och efter att PID regulatorn har hittats. Flygtesterna skulle fungera som en bekräftelse för modellen för att få en robust PID som presterar som väntat. / Kandidatexjobb i elektroteknik 2022, KTH, Stockholm

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In this project a cube was constructed with the intent for it to balance on one of its edges by regulating the speed of a reaction wheel. To be able to do this, a research was done to understand the mechanics of the system and to know what components were required for the project. A brushed DC motor was used with one reaction wheel on each end of its shaft, using the moment of inertia to convert the torque from the motor to an angular acceleration of the cube. A control system was implemented to regulate the speed of the motor depending on the angular offset of the cube. This control system was chosen to be a proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controller, and a number of different tuning methods were used to determine the parameters of said controller to create a stable system. Despite the different methods used, the cube did not successfully balance for a longer period of time. / Under detta projekt har en kub konstruerats med syfte att balansera på en av sina kanter genom att reglera hastigheten på ett reaktionshjul. En undersökning genomfördes för att få en bra förståelse för det mekaniska systemet samt för att ta reda på vilka komponenter som var väsentliga för projektet. En borstad likströmsmotor användes tillsammans med ett reaktionshjul på varsin sida av motorns drivande axel vars tröghetsmoment utnyttjades för att överföra momentet från motorn till en vinkelacceleration på kuben. En regulator implementerades för att styra hastigheten på reaktionshjulen beroende på vinkelavvikelsen från jämviktsläget. Regulatorn som valdes var en proportionell, integrerande och deriverande (PID) regulator och flera olika metoder användes för att bestämma regulatorns parametervärden som avgör dess egenskaper. Trots att olika metoder prövades lyckades inte kuben balansera under en längre period.

The digitization of classical control systems presents a number of challenges and opportunities with respect to the miniaturization, distribution, reliability verification and obsolescence of both the controller and the underlying system under control. A method for the design of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) compensators realized in the form of all-digital components is presented. All-digital refers to a system implementation that is realizable with a wide range of digital logic components including discrete digital logic elements and programmable logic devices (PLDs) such as field-programmable gate arrays. The proportional, integral and derivative components of the classical PID control law were re-envisioned in terms of frequency of occurrences or counts for adaptation to combinatorial and sequential digital logic. Modification of the control scheme around this newly formed representation of system error enables the development of a PID-like FPGA-based or PLD-based controller. Details of the design of an all-digital PID-like controller including abstract, causal block diagrams and a MATLAB® and Simulink® based implementation are presented. The compensator was simulated in a velocity tracking DC motor control application and was found to perform comparably to that of a classical PID based control. Methods for assessing the resultant stability of an all-digital PID compensated system under control are discussed.

Uma das técnicas de controle avançado que vem ganhando destaque no cenário econômico e ecológico, focando maior sustentabilidade e a otimização dos processos, é o controle preditivo, o qual já vem sendo aplicado em indústrias químicas e petroquímicas. Esta dissertação trata do desenvolvimento de um controle preditivo aplicado a uma planta piloto de neutralização de pH, presente no Laboratório de Controle de Processos Industriais da Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo. O desenvolvimento do projeto pode ser dividido em quatro etapas: implementação das malhas de controle regulatório, identificação dos sistemas, construção do controlador preditivo, aplicações e análises experimentais. Na primeira etapa foi necessário estudar o sistema em questão e implementar algumas malhas internas usando controladores PID. Na segunda etapa foi realizada a identificação do modelo da planta, ressaltando que pontos de operação e ajuste de parâmetros internos são determinantes para a modelagem. Já na terceira etapa desenvolveu-se um controlador preditivo, através de softwares auxiliares como o MATLAB e o IIT 800xA da ABB, que foram utilizados para o desenvolvimento e implementação do algoritmo de controle. Por fim, na última etapa, foi feita a análise e comparação dos resultados, quando se submete à planta a um controlador PID, quando aplicado um controlador preditivo em cascata com controladores PID e quando se utiliza apenas o controlador preditivo com ação direta nos atuadores. / The predictive control is an advanced control technique which has gained evidence in the economic and ecological context because the search for sustainability and process optimization. This control has already been applied by the chemical and petrochemical industries. The purpose of this project is to develop a predictive controller which will be applied in a pH neutralization plant located in the Industrial Processes Control Laboratory at Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. The development of this project can be divided into four stages: implementation of regulatory control loops, identification of the system, construction of the predictive controller, applications and experimental analysis. The first step is necessary in order to study the plant and to implement some internal loops using PID controllers. In the second step, the identification process of the plant model will be done. It is important to note that operating points and internal parameter settings are very important for modeling. In the third stage, using the model obtained from the identification process, a predictive controller is built from auxiliary software such as MATLAB and IIT 800xA (by ABB), which will be used for the development and implementation of the control algorithm. Finally, the last step consists in collecting and analyzing the results of the pH neutralization plant. At this stage the responses of each controller will be compared: PID controller, MPC controller in cascade mode with PID and MPC controller acting directly on actuators.