The objective of this work is to design a fractional filter fractional order PID controller for non-integer order plus time delay (NIOPTD) systems using fractional internal model control (IMC) filter structure. The novelty of the work lies in identifying the higher order fractional IMC filter structure using a systematic analytical procedure based on the minimization of integral absolute error (IAE). The resulting controller consists of a fractional filter term and a fractional PID controller. The tuning parameters are identified based on the minimum value IAE for a fixed robustness (Ms). Simulations are carried out for servo and regulatory response and it was found that an enhanced performance is observed with the proposed controller in terms of low IAE and ITAE. Uncertainties in the process parameters are considered to check the robustness and the stability is assessed with robust stability analysis. The results indicate that the closed loop system with the proposed controllers is robustly stable. In addition, fragility analysis has been done for uncertainties in the controller parameters. The major contribution of this work is the analytical design procedure for identification of optimum fractional IMC filter structure with higher order pade's approximation for timed delay.
In this article, a modified fractional internal model control (IMC) filter structure is proposed to design a fractional filter Proportional-Integral-Derivative (FFPID) controller for improved disturbance rejection of second order plus time delay (SOPTD) processes. The proposed method aims at improving the disturbance rejection of slow chemical processes as the tuning rules for such processes are limited. The present design also considers the higher order approximation for time delay as it gives improved response for higher order processes. There is an additional tuning parameter in the proposed IMC filter apart from the conventional IMC filter time constant, which is tuned according to the derived formula. The additional adjustable parameter achieves the disturbance rejection and the closed loop stability. The simulation results have been performed for the same degree of robustness (maximum sensitivity, Ms) for a fair comparison. The results show an improved disturbance rejection for lag dominant and delay significant SOPTD processes with the proposed controllers designed using higher order Pade’s approximation of time delay than the proposed method using first order approximation and the conventional method. The closed loop robust performance is observed for perturbations in the process parameters and the performance is also observed for noise in the measurement. The robust stability analysis is carried out using sensitivity functions. In addition, the Ms range is also identified over which the system gives robust performance for the controllers designed using higher order pade’s approximation of time delay compared to conventional method.
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