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In this paper, operator-based nonlinear water temperature control for a group of three connected microreactors actuated by Peltier devices is proposed. To control the water temperature of tube in the microreactor, the temperature change of aluminum effects is considered. Therefore, the temperature change of aluminum becomes the part of an input of the tube. First, nonlinear thermal models of aluminum plates and tubes that structure the microreactor are obtained. Then, an operator based nonlinear water temperature control system for the microreactor is designed. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed models and methods is confirmed by simulation and experimental results.
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Shotaro Kawahata received the B. Sc. degree in applied electrical and electronic engineering from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan in 2014. He is currently a master student in the Graduate School of Engineering of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan.
His research is nonlinear control system design.
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Ming-Cong Deng received the Ph.D. degree in systems science from Kumamoto University, Japan in 1997. From 1997 to 2000, he was with Kumamoto University as an assistant professor. From 2000 to 2001, he was in University of Exeter, UK, and then spent one year at the Communication Science Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT). Since the end of 2002 to September of 2010, he worked at Okayama University, where he was an assistant professor and then an associate professor. He is currently a professor of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan.
His research interests include operator-based nonlinear system modeling, control and fault detection, strong stability-based control, and robust parallel compensation.
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Kawahata, S., Deng, MC. Operator-based nonlinear temperature control experiment for microreactor group actuated by Peltier devices. Int. J. Autom. Comput. 13, 401–408 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-016-0994-2
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