STD-ASHRAE SRCH IJHVAC
9-3-ENGL
1998
W
0759b50
0535752
774
m
VOLUME
4,
NUMBER
3,
JULY
1998
217
ing temperature and superheat around desired values, using compressor speed and valve open-
ing. The vapor compression machine discussed here is a residential air conditioner. The machine
is of a split type, with cooling capacity rated at
2.8
kW.
The machine was equipped with a vari-
able-speed compressor with operating range from
30
Hz to
100
Hz,
and a variable-flow elec-
tronic expansion valve and variable-speed indoor fan. Hardware needed for implementation in a
controller included sensors (eight pressure sensors in different locations, sixteen thermocouples
to measure temperatures, and a refrigerant flow meter of turbine type installed at the exit of
indoor heat exchanger); sensor interface (an
.4/D
board for pressure signal conversion,
a
multi-
plexier board connecting with an
A/D
board for temperature signal conversion, a signal condi-
tioner for the flow meter); a desktop computer that takes the measurement data; and control
actuators (compressor motor, stepping motor for the expansion valve, and indoor fan motor) by
either
RS232C
serial communication commands or D/A signals. Software needed for implemen-
tation included data acquisition programs, model parameter identification programs, a program
for designing the LQG with integrators, and programs for actuator drives.
The following discussion describes design procedures for a normal operating point. The
matrices
A,
B,
C,
and
D
in the fifth order model were given in the section, Analysis of the Lin-
earized Model. For other operating points, similar design procedures can be applied.
In the design of the LQG with integrators, we needed to obtain the optimal gain matrix
KO
and
the Kalman filter matrix
L.
The design parameters that we had to determine were weighting
matrices
Q
and
R
for obtaining
KO,
and weighting matrices
Q
and
R
for obtaining
L.
We selected
Q
and R to be
2
x
2
identity matrices to obtain the Kalman filter matrix
L
by assuming that the
process and measurement had the same level of noise. In order to obtain the optimal gain matrix
Ka,
iterations were needed to select weighting matrices
Q
and
R
such that the controller
K(s)
sat-
isfied performance specifications and stability robustness.
Q
and
R
were initially selected to be
10
O
4/k
5/kj
where
k
represents the relative magnitude of proportional and integral weighting, and
r
repre-
sents the relative magnitude of
Q
and
R
that results in a different magnitude
of
control gain. The
smaller the
r,
the larger the control gain. Note that the off-diagonal element in matrix
R
was neg-
ative, which means that the opposite direction of compressor speed change and valve opening
change increases the cost function and should therefore be penalized. Appropriate values of
k
and
r
had to be selected iteratively,
so
that the stability robustness criterion and performance cri-
terion could be satisfied.
“True” model
G,íjw)
can be approximately obtained in experimental tests by exciting the sys-
tem with different frequency sinusoidal control signals. By comparing the plant model
Cow)
and the “true” model
G,oo)
from experimental tests, the maximum multiplicative model error
0[E(jo)]
was found to be less than
W0.08.
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