15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
WAVELET-BASED IDENTIFICATION FOR CONTROL OF WATER-TUBE DRUM BOILER
Kazushi Nakano*, Tetsuya Tabaru**
Seiichi Shin** Yukihiro Toyoda**
* Dept. of Electronic Engg, The University of
Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofu-ga-oka, Chofu,
Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
** The University of Tokyo, Japan
*** Bailey Japan Co., Ltd., Japan

The procedure for identifying linear time-varying systems with dead times by using the wavelet analysis has been already proposed by the authors. This paper reports an application of the identification procedure to actual control systems of water-tube drum boiler in a thermal power plant. The control systems are required to supply steadily high-quality steam against disturbances due to unexpected changes in load. Therefore, it is necessary to make a model which can take the disturbances into consideration for control system design. The identification procedure is composed of the estimation of the stationary-state time range and that of the process transfer functions in the stationary and non-stationary states. The identified model sets are evaluated by the prediction errors in the process outputs, drum-pressure and drum-level, in comparison with an ARX model.
Keywords: Wavelet-based system identification, time-varying systems, input-dependent linear systems, MIMO systems, dead time, MSE, water-tube drum boiler, thermal power station
Session slot T-Mo-M01: Signal Processing/Area code 3a : Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing