Online Estimation and Adaptive Temperature Control of Polymerization Reactor

Vasanthi, D.; Pranavamoorthy, B.; Pappa, N.

doi:10.3182/20131218-3-in-2045.00026

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Efficient and robust state estimation: Application to a copolymerization process

2021

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Polymerization processes are highly non-linear systems that require strict control of their dynamic operation to be competitive. The unscented Kalman filter is a filtering strategy that has shown a rewarding performance for non-linear state estimation. Besides, filters based on robust statistics have been proposed to deal with the presence of outliers. However, reported robust filters have employed only the Huber M-estimator as the loss function of the estimation problem. This work presents a new state-estimation procedure based on the unscented transformation and robust statistics concepts. When outliers are present, estimates are more accurate than when using the conventional filter. In contrast to previous research, our methodology is also efficient when there are no outliers. The performances of different loss functions for solving the estimation problem are presented. The results show that redescending Mestimators outperform the Huber function. The behaviour of the technique is analyzed for a copolymerization process.

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