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Online Control of TOS1A Thermo-Optical Plant Using OpenModelica

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CONTROLO 2016

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 402))

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The paper describes remote approach to the control of thermo-optical plant. The attention is devoted to the open solution that is based on the OpenModelica simulation environment. The plant enables to control two variables: temperature and light intensity. Both of them can be influenced by the user, using a graphical user interface via a web browser. The user can run both the open and the closed loop experiment, as well. In the second case the predefined PI controller and the own control algorithm can be used. The graphical presentation of plant variables is constantly updated via server-sent events.

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Author thanks to František Maras for his help with application implementation, fruitful discussions and critical reading of this paper. His help is very gratefully acknowledged. This work was supported by the Slovak Grant Agency, Grant VEGA No. 1/0937/14 and APVV-0343-12.

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  1. School of Engineering,Campus de Couros, University of Minho School of Engineering,Campus de Couros, Guimarães, Portugal

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    Filomena Soares

  3. Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto Faculty of Engineering, Porto, Portugal

    António Paulo Moreira

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Žáková, K. (2017). Online Control of TOS1A Thermo-Optical Plant Using OpenModelica. In: Garrido, P., Soares, F., Moreira, A. (eds) CONTROLO 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 402. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43671-5_73

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