Wireless Control Foundation: Continuous and Discrete Control for the Process Industry

ISBN: 9780876640883

In this book, the authors address the wireless communicationconcepts and terminology that are needed to apply wireless controlin the process industry. The control system interfaces and wirelessfield devices described in this book are based on wirelessstandards for industrial settings and can be used in monitoring andcontrol applications. Wireless transmitters were initially usedonly to monitor the process, not control it. However, over the lastsix years, wireless measurements have earned high user confidence,and new control techniques have been devised to deal with thecharacteristics of wireless operation. Based on the broadacceptance of wireless transmitters, many manufacturers are in theprocess of developing and introducing wireless final controlelements such as on/off and throttling valves. The book details therecent technical innovations that address control using wirelessmeasurements and final control elements. It presents how controlcan be structured to manage the slow and non-periodic measurementupdate rates provided by a wireless transmitter and to compensatefor communication delay to the final control element. These newcontrol techniques make it possible to use wireless measurementsand wireless valves in closed loop control. The book also presentshow wireless measurements may be utilized with model predictivecontrol (MPC).

Edition:

15

Published:

01/01/2015

Number of Pages:

274

File Size:

1 file , 22 MB