Design of Multimodel based MPC and IMC control schemes applied to injection molding machine

  • Authors

    • Kanaga Lakshmi research scholar, department of Instrumentation engineering,MIT, anna university,chennai
    • D. Manamalli
    • M. Mohamed Rafiq
    2014-03-15
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v3i2.1844

  • Good control of plastic melt temperature for injection molding is very important in reducing operator setup time, ensuring product quality, and preventing thermal degradation of the melt. The controllability and set points of barrel temperature also depend on the precise monitoring and control of plastic melt temperature. Motivated by the practical temperature control of injection molding, this paper proposes MPC and IMC based control scheme. A robust system identification and control methodology is developed which uses canonical varieties analysis for identification and model predictive control for regulation. The injection molding process consists of three zones and the mathematical model for each of the zone is different. The control output for each zone controller is assigned a weight based on the computed probability of each model and the resulting action is the weighted average of the control moves of the individual zone controllers.

     

    Keywords: Injection-Molding Machine (IMM), IMC Control, Temperature Control.

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    Lakshmi, K., Manamalli, D., & Rafiq, M. M. (2014). Design of Multimodel based MPC and IMC control schemes applied to injection molding machine. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 3(2), 82-92. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v3i2.1844