A NEURAL NET BASED DISTURBANCE PREDICTOR FOR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL

摘要

A control loop for controlling a process or plant which controls the process or plant via an actuator. The control loop receives from the process or plant a signal representative of the process or plant output. The loop includes a nominal controller (20) that generates a control signal for the actuator which is used only in the absence of a predicted disturbance to the process or plant signal from a disturbance mode controller unit having a neural network (14) conditioned for predicting and indicating a disturbance.