Temperature control of a neutral time delay central heating system via a two term disturbance compensator

Abstract

The control problem of a central heating system is studied via a PD controller feeding back the environment temperature and the performance output, i.e. the temperature of the heated room. The design goal is to compensate the influence of the environment temperature to the room temperature. To achieve this goal, a PI controller has supplementary been used. Even though, the controller is simple and easily implementable to low level control architectures, the performance the closed loop system is satisfactory. The parameters of the controller are computed using pure and mixed heuristic schemes based on the linearization of the nonlinear general neutral plant and minimizing the norm of the influence of the disturbance to the plant output.