Slovak University of Technology

Faculty of Material Science and Technology in Trnava

Control Systems Design

2007

Control Systems Design

Distributed control systems - process control level:

Process level

Sensors Actuators Programmable controllers Operator interfaces Lateral communications Vertical communications...

Control Systems Design

Distributed Control Systems - Upper Control Level:
Operator

level

operator displays

on line control process monitoring

operator process control process data acquisition

process data history trends aggregation ...

The process level provides the primary functions of a control system:

Acquisition and primary processing of continuous and binary technological variables Control action computation according algorthms of continuous or logical control given

Realization of computed control action

Alarm generation under abnormal, special events in controlled system or control one as well

The process level provides the primary functions of a control system (continued):

Fault operation blocking of control system and control system transition into safety state Selfdiagnostic of control system hardware secondary proccesing of analog and binary technological variables used on upper level control

horizontal and vertical communication distributed control systems units...

of

The operator level is usually configured for the functions:

controlled technological process monitoring control process visualisation alarms processing on line trends generating off line historical trends archiving and historical data presentation for higher control system level data aggregation.

The design of control systems is

a complex problem:

process level distributed control systems design with programmable controllers

control process monitoring design

operator interface design (HMI/MMI) SCADA system design

Real time Database design...

The scope of the DCS course

Process

Level - Control Loop - SW life cycle:

I/O analogue and binary variable acquisition and primary processing Control action executing Alarms/events processing and managing. The scope of the course Control System Design is specified as follows: Data processing design Control loop design Design process documentation

The scope of the DCS course

Data processing design Control loop design Design process documentation

Key

words

User Requirements Specification Functional Specification HW / SW design

Documentation Specification

Control Loop Design

Single Control Loop

Cascade Control Loop

master /Slave control loops

Ratio Control

set point programming

mixture technology

Feed Forward Control

on a disturbance on a set point

Control Loop Design consists of steps:

Dynamic system model identification Dynamic process simulation Control parameter optimisation

Control process simulation

Control loop stability verification Control loop performance verification

Life Cycle Documentation

User Requirements Specification Functional Specification Hardware Specification

Software Specification
Test planning control system verification, control system validation, FAT, SAT Operator&System manuals Control system maintenance documentation

The Course Scope

User Requirements Specification

what should to do

Functional Specification

what will to do

Process Model Identification

transfer function

Control Parameters Optimisation

P, PI, PD, PIDA, PIDB...

Control Process Simulation

control process verification