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Reference Governor is an important component of Active Fault Tolerant Control. One of the main reasons for using Reference Governor is to adjust/modify the reference trajectories to maintain the stability of the post-fault system, especially when a series of actuator faults occur and the faulty system can not retain the pre-fault performance. Fault estimation error and delay are important properties of Fault Detection and Diagnosis and have destructive effects on the performance of the Active Fault Tolerant Control. It is shown that, if the fault estimation provided by the Fault Detection and Diagnosis (initial “fault estimation”) is assumed to be precise (an ideal assumption), the... 

The turbine control system is one of the key control loops in the dynamic performance of steam power generation units. In this paper a multivariable PID controller is designed for the governing system of steam turbine power generators. The necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of a strong robust H ∞ dynamic compensator are established in terms of linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach. This controller is designed in succeeding to the existing proportional controller in a power plant. To reach to this goal, the complete dynamic model of an actual turbine-generator including the governor, turbine and generator, are derived. Simulation results show that proposed controller has good... 

Proportional-integral (PI) controllers are the most common form of feedback used in industrial applications today [1][3]. The use of proportional and integral feedback also has a long history of practical applications [4]. For example, in the middle of the 18th century, centrifugal governors as the proportional feedback were applied to regulate the speed of windmills [5]. By the 19th century, it was known that using integral feedback could remove the offsets appearing in working with governors [6]. At present, PI control, still a very basic form of feedback, is also one of the first solutions often considered in the control of industrial systems [7]. On the other hand, in some applications,... 

Load-frequency control is the intrinsic function of the governor in the power plants. It would be used in variant structures depend on the controller type such as PID, adaptive, fuzzy or robust. Temporary droop structure governor (TDSG) was commonly used in Hydro power plants (HPP). After representation of TDSG, this paper is dedicated to introducing a procedure for tuning TDSG parameters. The technique is based on pole placement for the closed loop poles of the system. These poles correspond to the TDSG parameters that by accurate tuning of them, pole placement is accomplished. The results for tuning TDSG of Abbaspour HPP have been presented as well. © 2008 IEEE  

The governor of hydro power plants should track frequency variations and at the same time provide good response to load disturbances. These two functions are contradictory and the system model changes with the operating point. This paper presents a robust fuzzy logic adaptive load-frequency controller for hydro power plants. The case study is Abbaspour power plant in Iran. © 2007 SICE