Two degree-of-freedom design for a send-on-delta sampling PI control strategy

A complete event-based two-degree-of-freedom PI controller is presented. The architecture of the control system is based on two decoupled PI controllers, one for the set-point following and one for the load disturbance rejection task. The distinctive feature of the proposed approach is that the two controllers have the same parameters and the reference tracking performance is improved by suitably modifying the reference signal applied to the set-point following controller. Examples of the technique are given. In particular, the control strategy has been applied to a distributed solar collector field. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.