Additive Uncertainty Consideration for Nonlinear and Multivariable Bioprocess Control

• Published in: Revista IEEE América Latina Vol. 19; no. 5; pp. 798 - 806
• Main Authors: Fernandez, Cecilia, Pantano, Nadia, Rodriguez, Leandro, Scaglia, Gustavo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Alamitos IEEE 01-05-2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Adaptation models; Additives; Biofuels; Biological activity; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Estimation; IEEE transactions; Inductors; Integrators; Interpolation; Linear algebra; Multivariable control; Nonlinear systems; Nonlinear tracking control; Tracking errors; Uncertainty
• DOI: 10.1109/TLA.2021.9448314
• EISSN: 1548-0992

Biological processes are becoming more frequent nowadays due to the wide variety of products obtained from them and their possibility of making environmentally friendly some processes while high standard products are obtained. Nevertheless, controlling them has many difficulties due to their complex dynamic (multivariable and highly nonlinear systems) subject to modeling uncertainties and external disturbances presence. In this paper, two possibilities of improvement for a previously presented technique are proposed. In the first one, an approach based on the error estimation using Newtons backward interpolation is included in the design equations to decrease the uncertainties effect; while in the second one, some tracking error integrators are added in the control action calculation. Alternatives are applied in a bioethanol system, tested under different conditions and compared to show the improvements.