15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
NON-LINEAR OBSERVER FOR BIOPROCESSES
Julio A. Romero Pérez* José L. Navarro Herrero**
* jromero@isa.upv.es
** joseluis@isa.upv.es
Department of Systems Engineering and Control
Technical University of Valencia, Spain

In this paper a new non-linear observer is designed for on-line estimation of the broth composition in the bioreactors. The design is based on asymptotic observer. An additional correction is done to asymptotic estimation, taking into account the structure of the reaction rate equations. Two examples of biotechnological processes are used to show the performance of the proposed observer.
Keywords: bioreactors, non-linear observers
Session slot T-Mo-A09: Observer Design for Bioprocesses/Area code 7d : Control of Biotechnological Processes