Robust H-infinity control applied to a solar plant

Abstract

This paper shows the application of robust control techniques to a solar plant integrated in an air conditioning system. Different structures in an specific loop are applied, because of the complexity of the whole system. Besides the classical feedback loop, the plant controller includes also a feed forward one to reject measurable disturbances as radiation. The design methodology and some simulations examples will be exposed. Finally, several experiments to test the validity of the controllers are performed in the real plant.