15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF AN OLIVE OIL MILL WITH MULTI-OBJECTIVE PRIORITIZATION
C.B. Scheffer-Dutra*, A. Núñez-Reyes**, C. Bordons**
* Dept. Automação e Sistemas, Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina
CP: 476, CEP: 88040-900, Florianópolis-SC, Brazil
cynthia@lcmi.usfc.br
** Dept. Ing. Sistemas y Automática, Univ. de Sevilla
Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n, 41092, Sevilla, Spain
{amparo, bordons}@cartuja.us.es

This paper presents a multi-objective controller applied to an olive oil mill. The practical experience using a Generalized Predictive Controller (GPC) in the real plant showed the necessity of including objectives, with different priorities, in the process control. The analysis demonstrates that GPC with prioritization objectives can control the process and fulfill the specified operational conditions. The results are illustrated with some simulations that compare the traditional GPC to the multi-objective one.
Keywords: Multiobjective optimizations, Optimization problems, Priority, Process control, Predictive control
Session slot T-Tu-E21: Posters of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Systems/Area code 4a : Modelling and Control in Agricultural Processes