Structural Analysis of Nonlinear Control Systems Using Singular Value Decomposition: Part II — Control of an Input-Constrained Thermal Process
In a Part I (Structural Analysis of Nonlinear Control System using Singular Value Decomposition: Part I—Approach), structural analysis algorithms for nonlinear control systems were developed applying singular value decomposition (SVD) on the linear algebraic equivalence of the nonlinear controller. In this paper, the proposed algorithms are applied to the temperature control of a thermal system which has control input constraints. Control input/output modes, weights of linear mode combination, colinearity, and mode truncation concepts introduced in Part I, are used to analyze and find the cause of input-constraint-violating-control of the nonlinear controller designed for the thermal system and to redesign the nonlinear controller to satisfy the input constraints and to reduce control effort.