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A Comparative Study of Decoupler Design Techniques for TITO Control Processes

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In industrial control, the performance of multiple input and multiple output processes is constrained by an interaction in the plant dynamics. The interaction between the variables is abridged to the minimum degree by opting appropriate control configuration and designing the controller for each loop autonomously. Conversely, when interaction is modest, the controller often used with decoupler elements. This paper presents a comparative study of decoupler design for minimization of interaction among the controllers. The decoupler is designed and incorporated in control loop amid controller and process. This decomposes the MIMO system into multiple single loops and each loop controller is designed by using any existing SISO tuning method. This approach is straightforward, simple to know and implemented in practice. A case study is incorporated to validate the effectiveness of projected approach.

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  1. RGM College of Engineering and Technology, Nandyal, A.P., India

    R. Hanuma Naik & D. V. Ashok Kumar

  2. JNTUA College of Engineering, Anantapuram, A.P., India

    K. S. R. Anjaneyulu

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  1. Mathematics and Computer Science, Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Kapila Rohan Attele

  2. BioAxis DNA Research Centre (P) Hyderabad, IEEE India Council, Hyderabad, India

    Amit Kumar

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, JNTU College of Engineering, Ananthapur, India

    V. Sankar

  4. Department of Computer Science, CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India

    N. V. Rao

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute of Technology, Ananthapur, India

    T. Hitendra Sarma

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Naik, R.H., Ashok Kumar, D.V., Anjaneyulu, K.S.R. (2017). A Comparative Study of Decoupler Design Techniques for TITO Control Processes. In: Attele, K., Kumar, A., Sankar, V., Rao, N., Sarma, T. (eds) Emerging Trends in Electrical, Communications and Information Technologies. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 394. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1540-3_31

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