15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
IMPLEMENTATION OF A TOOL FOR CONTROL STRUCTURE ASSESSMENT
Mikael Petersson* Karl-Erik Årzén**
Henrik Sandberg** Lena de Maré**
* ABB Automation Technology Products, SE-205 22 Malmö,
Sweden
** Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of
Technology, PO Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden

A method for assessing disturbances in SISO loops has been developed. The method indicates if the SISO loop under consideration will benefit from an addition of feedforward control from a measured disturbance. An implementation in Java of the methodology is presented in the paper.
Keywords: Process Control, PID Control, Supervision, Control Structure Selection, Feedforward Control, Java
Session slot T-We-M11: Process Modeling and Analysis Tools/Area code 7a : Chemical Process Control