Model-based controller design for a plastic film extrusion process

Hur, Sung-ho and Katebi, Reza and Taylor, Andrew; (2010) Model-based controller design for a plastic film extrusion process. In: 2010 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA). IEEE, JPN, pp. 944-949. ISBN 9781424453627 (https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2010.5611280)

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Abstract

This paper reports the development and implementation of a model-based cross-directional controller for plastic film extrusion and other web-forming processes. The controller design has a similar structure to that of internal model control (IMC) with the addition of an observer whose gain is designed to minimise process and model mis-match. The observer gain is obtained by solving a multi-objective optimisation through the application of a genetic algorithm and simulation results are presented in this paper demonstrating improvements that can be achieved by the proposed controller over two existing CD controllers.