15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
CONSTRAINED MULTISINE INPUTS FOR PLANT-FRIENDLY IDENTIFICATION OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES
D.E. Rivera,*,1 M.W. Braun* and H.D. Mittelmann**
* Control Systems Engineering Laboratory
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
** Department of Mathematics
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287

This paper considers the use of constrained minimum crest factor multisine signals as inputs for plant-friendly identification testing of chemical process systems. The approach developed in this paper greatly increases their effectiveness in a process control setting by enabling the user to simultaneously specify important frequency and time-domain characteristics of these signals. Two problem formulations meaningful to both linear and nonlinear identification problems are presented. State-of-the-art computational methods are needed to solve the challenging optimization problems associated with crest factor minimization.
Keywords: “plant-friendly” system identification, chemical process control

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E-mail: daniel.rivera@asu.edu
Session slot T-We-A11: Process Identification and Estimation/Area code 7a : Chemical Process Control