Validación Experimental de un Observador de Alta Ganancia Constante Continuo-Discreto para una Columna de Destilación Binaria
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In this article a continuous-discrete high-gain observer is presented to estimate the molar compositions in a distillation column for the Ethanol-Water mixture, by using the measurements of the temperatures in its plates. One of the main advantages of this observer is its constant gain, which is why its tuning depends only on choosing constant parameters that must satisfy some simple algebraic inequalities. The continuous-discrete observer presents a good pursuit of the process dynamics in spite of using less data than a purely discrete observer. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated using experimental data.
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High-gain observers have shown excellent performance in nonlinear systems with parameters and disturbances with uncertainty, particularly in biological and environmental processes.
“These observers have shown excellent performance in nonlinear systems with parameters and disturbances with uncertainty, particularly in biological and environmental processes [25,26].”
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Section 4 (page not provided) reports good performance of a high-gain observer in a nonlinear distillation process when controlled inputs changed. Section 3 models an unknown, bounded disturbance, but the reported results do not establish performance under uncertain parameters and disturbances. The paper studies an ethanol–water distillation column, not biological or environmental processes. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Aguilera-González, A., Téllez-Anguiano, A. C., Astorga-Zaragoza, C. M., Juárez-Romero, D., & Quintero-Mármol, E.
- Affiliations
- Centro Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico (MX)
- Venue
- Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial RIAI
- Publisher
- Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
- Published
- 2010-04
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 31-38
- ISSN
- 1697-7912 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2086883352
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- es
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial RIAI (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- RiuNet (Universitat Politècnica de València) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Control Systems and Identification
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Fault Detection and Control Systems
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Advanced Control Systems Optimization
- Keywords
- high-gain observer, state estimation, binary distillation column, ethanol-water mixtures, observer gain tuning, algebraic inequalities
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