Abstract:
Fast and strong interacting systems are hard to control from both performance and control effort points of view. Moreover, multiple objective functions or objectives with various identifiers of varying weights can hold infeasible solutions at times. A novel cost objective function is proposed here to overcome both feasibility set limitations and computational burdens. An application example is used to illustrate its added value, which is a fast and strong interacting multivariable system: a landscape office lighting regulatory problem. New lighting technology and an intelligent control system have been produced to improve control accuracy and reduce power consumption. While optimizing the hardware of the lighting system, the energy consumption can be further reduced by applying advanced control strategy in the lighting system. This paper designed a fractional order distributed model predictive control (FOMPC) scheme to realize the reference tracking and stability control of multiple illuminations at the same time. In order to test the efficiency of the control strategy, an experiment was carried out on the lighting setup based on the dSPACE control system. The FOMPC scheme was analyzed through simulation and lighting experiments based on the dSPACE control system. Through a comparison with the model predictive control (MPC) scheme, the superiority of the FOMPC scheme for the dynamic behavior and control performance of multiple lighting systems was verified. The research results provide a basis for multiple lighting control and its application.
