Published June 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

Time-optimal control of nuclear reactor power with adaptive proportional- integral-feedforward gains

  • 1. Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology, Taejon (Korea, Republic of). Dept. of Nuclear Engineering

Description

A time-optimal control method which consists of coarse and fine control stages is described here. During the coarse control stage, the maximum control effort (time-optimal) is used to direct the system toward the switching boundary which is set near the desired power level. At this boundary, the controller is switched to the fine control stage in which an adaptive proportional-integral-feedforward (PIF) controller is used to compensate for any unmodeled reactivity feedback effects. This fine control is also introduced to obtain a constructive method for determining the (adaptive) feedback gains against the sampling effect. The feedforward control term is included to suppress the over-or undershoot. The estimation and feedback of the temperature-induced reactivity is also discussed

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Journal Volume
40
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 266-270.
ISSN
0018-9499
CODEN
IETNAE