This paper deals with the control of concentrating
parabolic solar collectors by forcing the outlet oil temperature
to track a set reference. A fuzzy universal approximate model
is introduced in order to accurately reproduce the behavior
of the system dynamics. The proposed model is a low order
state space representation derived from the partial differential
equation describing the oil temperature evolution using fuzzy
transform theory. The resulting set of ordinary differential
equations simplifies the system analysis and the control law design
and is suitable for real time control implementation. Simulation
results show good performance of the proposed model.
Citation
Elmetennani, S., & Laleg-Kirati, T. M. (2014). Fuzzy universal model approximator for distributed solar collector field control. 2014 UKACC International Conference on Control (CONTROL). doi:10.1109/control.2014.6915140
Acknowledgements
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology