Real-time Digital Control of a Coupled-Tank Plant with a Cyber-Physical System Node
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https://doi.org/10.11113/elektrika.v19n3.238Keywords:
Real-time digital control, Cyber-physical systems, Proportional-integral control, Coupled-tank plantAbstract
A real-time implementation of a digital proportional-integral controller on a Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) node for a coupled-tank plant to provide a testbed for verification of control algorithm and communication is described. The CPS node embedded computer is based on the ADuC841 8-bit microcontroller and the embedded real-time multitasking software was written in Pascal language. The node is interfaced to the Quanser's coupled-tank plant via the on-chip 12-bit analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, and a RS-485 communication network connects it to other nodes to form a CPS. Experimental results on the closed-loop control performances of the digital proportional-integral controller with three different tuning sets on the coupled-tank plant, verified the functionality of the digital control algorithm.References
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