CBE C235/C135 - Advanced Process Control

Syllabus

• Week 1: Introduction; mathematical modeling of chemical processes; linearization of

dynamic models.

• Week 2: Lyapunov stability for autonomous nonlinear systems including converse the-
orems.

• Week 3: Input-to-state stability, interconnected systems and small gain theorems.

• Week 4: Design of nonlinear controllers for various class of nonlinear systems: normal
forms, inversion and zero dynamics.

• Week 5: Design of nonlinear controllers for various class of nonlinear systems: feedback
input/state and input/output linearization, and dynamic extension algorithms.

• Week 6: Design of controllers for various classes of nonlinear systems using Lyapunov
techniques.

• Week 7: Model predictive control algorithms for linear and nonlinear systems; multi-
variable systems.

• Week 8: Economic model predictive control.

• Week 9: Methods for tuning of classical controllers (proportional-integral (PI), proportional-

integral-derivative (PID)); connections with model predictive control.

• Week 10: Introduction to control of distributed parameter systems.