15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
TWO-COUPLED-TANKS LEVEL REGULATION WITH CONSTRAINTS ON THE CONTROL AND THE OUTPUT
A. Baddou**, F. Tadeo*** and A. Benzaouia**
** LAEP, Dépt. de Physique Faculté des Sciences
Semlalia, Avenue du Prince My Abdellah,
Marrakech MOROCCO
*** Dept. de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Automatica,
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid,
47005 Valladolid, SPAIN

This paper presents the application of the positive invariance concept to real-time control of a two-tanks system in the presence of hard constraints on the output and control signals. Results show that it is possible to regulate correctly the laboratory plant without violating the output and control constraints, when controlling the system with the output-feedback controller designed using the positive invariance concept.
Keywords: Positive invariance; Constraints
Session slot T-Tu-E16: Controller Design Studies (Processing Plants)/Area code 2a : Control Design