Iterative Identification and Control: A Sugar Cane Crushing Mill

Abstract

We deal with the “nuts and bolts” aspects of iterative system identification and control design on a specific process of a sugar cane crushing mill from North Queensland, Australia. Our emphasis is on the aspects in which the process knowledge is used to guide the myriad of design choices necessary before resorting to the use of special-purpose software for identification or control design. Of particular concern is the demonstration in concrete form of the principles developed in earlier chapters dealing with identification for control and model-based control design. We deliberately unfocus attention from the specific algorithms used in Matlab^® from the System Identification and the (Robust) Control Toolboxes. The objective is to connect the a priori knowledge, the design objective and the posing of inputs to the computational tools.