Feedforward tuning rules
Overview
Feedforward control from measurable disturbances provides a possibility to make control actions before any disturbance response has occurred in the process output. This fact makes it a very powerful complement to the feedback controller. When the feedforward compensator is realizable, the effects of the load disturbance are eliminated from the process output. However, the ideal compensator is usually non-causal, and the system performance is highly affected. Thus, modifications to the classical compensator structure are required to account for this problem. This website summarizes a research line about this topic, where new and simple tuning rules for feedforward compensators have been developed. The contributions presented here are thanks to a strong collaboration with Tore Hagglund, Manuel Berenguel, Carlos Rodriguez, Antonio Visioli, Max Veronesi, and Julio Normey-Rico among other researchers.
Slides
Presentations from various workshops and conferences:
- PhD course Valencia (Spain) 2014 - Long presentation (PDF)
- PhD course Brescia (Italy) 2014 - Short presentation (PDF)
- PhD course UNED (Madrid) 2019 - Short presentation (PDF)
- Workshop at IFAC World Congress, Berlin (Germany) 2020 (PDF)
- 23rd Nordic Process Control Workshop, Lulea (Sweden) 2022 (PDF)
- Workshop at IFAC World Congress, Yokohama (Japan) 2023 (PDF)
- Selecting control schemes and tuning rules in feedforward control - IFAC World Congress, Yokohama (Japan) 2023 (PDF)
- A new method to deal with the saturation problem in feedforward control - Nordic Process Control Workshop, Trondheim (Norway) 2023 (PDF)
Videos
Recorded presentations and workshops: