Applications
摘要
This chapter is dedicated to presenting some MPC applications to the control of different real processes. In these case studies, the reader will find that the different concepts presented throughout this book come to life in everyday practice. For example, industrial MPC formulations as those of Chaps. 2 and 3 are used in the control of a solar plant in California and an olive mill in Málaga, Spain. The state-space formulationState space– formulation of Chap. 4 along with the stochastic constraint satisfaction of Chaps. 5 and 6 are core elements in the control of a pilot-scale microgrid in Seville, Spain. These ideas are also relevant in the application of economic MPC to inventory control in hospital pharmacies in Andalusia, in southern Spain. Process nonlinearities, as those discussed in Chap. 7, and the challenges of coordinating coupled processes that were studied in Chap. 8 provide the key to understanding the need for a hierarchical control architecture in a real copper foundry in Huelva, Spain. Finally, implementating MPC in these processes required strategies to relax the computation demands of the controllers developed, a topic covered in detail in Chap. 9, so that they could be programmed on industrial hardware with reduced computational capabilities.