Bond graph based control: a process engineering example

Abstract

Much of the current body of control achieves a generic coverage of application areas by having a generic representation of the systems to be controlled. Instead of having a generic representation of systems, we propose a generic method for automatically deriving system-specific representations. We call this approach metamodelling and we use the Bond-Graph representation as a basis for this. This allows the use of particular representations for particular (possibly partially-known, possibly non-linear) systems. In this paper we illustrate the use of the bond graph representation by introducing one aspect of our approach to model-based control namely model-based observer control. The motivatio..