摘要:AbstractA Simulink application was developed to simulate and control the three-tank benchmark plant, widely used for demonstration purposes in Control Engineering and similar to many plants in the industry (e.g. waste-water treatment, breweries, refineries), but with a slow response. The software developed allows centralized and distributed control (using a multi-agent system over several computers), makes use of both PID (proportional-integral-derivative) and fractional PID controllers, and is robust to model misidentifications and communication failures. It can be used in classes to introduce many control strategies, from simple singleinput- single-output PID control to a complex multi-input-multi-output, multi-agent, fault-tolerant, fractional law control.
关键词:Three-tank benchmark system;Simulink simulation;multi-agent system;PID control;fractional control;fault-tolerant control