The practical implementation of optimal control systems in large industrial process applications has been limited by the high costs of the required computing facilities. With the recent advances in component fabrication and the resultant decrease in hardware costs, special purpose computers, utilizing virtually no software at all, can be constructed as economical alternatives to presently available general purpose computers for use in optimal process controllers.
A design for one such special purpose machine, an automatic optimizer, is presented in this thesis. Tests conducted on a working optimizer constructed on the basis of the given design, demonstrate that it is suitably fast and powerful for use in process controllers. In addition, the optimizer is inexpensive enough to be used as part of an economical process controller. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/36153 |
| Date | January 1968 |
| Creators | Whale, Kenneth George |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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