• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.544-551
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• 2020

Reactor control is a standout amongst the most vital issues in the nuclear power plant. In this paper, the optimal design of variable structure controller (VSC) based on the lightning search algorithm (LSA) is proposed for a nuclear reactor power system. The LSA is a new optimization algorithm. It is used to find the optimal parameters of the VSC instead of the trial and error method or experts of the designer. The proposed algorithm is used for the tuning of the feedback gains and the sliding equation gains of the VSC to prove a good performance. Furthermore, the parameters of the VSC are tuned by the genetic algorithm (GA). Simulation tests are carried out to verify the performance and robustness of the proposed LSA-based VSC compared with GA-based VSC. The results prove the high performance and the superiority of VSC based on LSA compared with VSC based on GA.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1984.07a
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• pp.92-95
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• 1984

This paper describes a general method for the design of variable structure Model-Following Control systems (VSMFC). This design concept is developed using the theory of variable structure systems and slide mode. The feasibility and the advantages of the method are illustrated by applying it to a 1000 MWe Boiling Water Reactor. The control is studied in the range of 85 - 90 % of rated power for load-following control. A set of 12 nonlinear differential eq. are used to simulate the total plant. A 6th order linear model has been developed from these equations at 85% of rated power. The obtained controller is shown by simulations to be able to compensate for a plant parameter variation over a wide power range.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.149-151
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• 2007

For several decades, VSC has gained much attention as one of the useful design tools for handling the practical system with uncertainties or disturbances. Generally, the disturbances in the matching condition can be perfectly rejected via VSC; however, these in the mismatching condition are known to be hardly rejected. There have been some trials on it, in which the resulting controls in fact belong to the class of robust control guaranteeing disturbance ${\gamma}$-attenuation. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new Variable Structure Control (VSC) for a system with mismatched disturbances. The proposed controller is composed of linear and nonlinear parts; the former plays a role in stabilizing the system and the latter takes care of attenuating the disturbances. The main contribution is to introduce the concept of switching-zone, rather than switching-surface, that is designed through piece-wise Lyapunov functions. The resulting non-convex conditions are formulated with an iterative linear programming algorithm, which provides an excellent performance of almost rejecting the disturbances.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.07a
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• pp.361-365
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• 1998

In this paper, the sliding mode variable structure-fuzzy(SMVS-F) control algorithm is applied to speed controller for field oriented induction motor drive system. According to the principle of sliding mode variable structure-fuzzy adjustable speed control scheme, the proposed algorithm shows good performances which are reducing chattering, robustness against parameter variation in induction motor drive. The validity of the proposed control scheme is verified by computer simulation using SIMULINK.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.2
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• pp.411-416
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• 2010

In this paper, an integral variable structure static output feedback controller with an integral-augmented sliding surface is designed for the improved robust control of a uncertain system under unmatched system uncertainty and matched input matrix uncertainty and disturbance satisfying some conditions. To effectively remove the reaching phase problems, an output dependent integral augmented sliding surface is proposed. Its equivalent control and ideal sliding mode dynamics are obtained. The previous some limitations is overcome in this systematic design. A stabilizing control with the closed loop exponential stability is designed for all unmatched system matrix uncertainties and proved together with the existence condition of the sliding mode on S=0. To show the usefulness of the algorithm, a design example and computer simulations are presented.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.809-818
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• 1994

In this paper , the author proposed FLVSC (Fuzzy Logic Variable Structure Controller),of which control rules are extracted from the concepts of VSC(Variable Structure Control). FLC(Fuzzy Logic Controller) based on linguistic rules has the advantages of not needing of some exact mathematical model for plant to be controlled. The proposed method has the characteristics which are viewed in conventional VSC, e.g. insensitivity to a class of disturbances, parameter variations and uncertainties in sliding mode. In addition, the method has the properties of FLC-noise rejection capability etc. The computer simulations have been carried out for position control of DC servo motor to show the usefulness of the proposed method and the effects of disturbances and parameter variations are considered.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1991.07a
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• pp.548-551
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• 1991

The Sliding Mode Control of Variable Structure System is applied to robot manipulators or servo system for its merits of robustness to variable system parameters and disturbances. But Switching frequency of control input is excessively high during sliding mode operation. In this paper, a new control algorithm usings fuzzy logic is proposed to solve this problem. With the proposed algorithm, a dc motor speed control system has been simulated and the result shows expected performances.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.360-364
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• 2001

In this paper, a novel method of reaching law variable structure control based on fuzzy rules is present, which is that the reaching law parameters is on-line adjusted by fuzzy rules. This method is used in a digital ac position servo system, the experiment results show that the system designed by this method has both satisfactory quality and very smaller chattering.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1990.10a
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• pp.155-160
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• 1990

This paper presents the new VSMFC (variable structure model following control) algorithm of a system with parameter uncertainty. In contrast to the conventional approach, continuous control inputs am used instead of discontinous ones and modified reachability condition for sliding mode reduces a reaching phase and a newly proposed sliding surfaces are used for the robust control of uncertain system.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07b
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• pp.449-451
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• 1997

In this paper, A continuous control reaching law for variable structure control is proposed to reduce the chattering and improve the robustness properties in the presence of matched uncertainly.