Fractional order and BICO disturbance observers for a run-of-mine ore milling circuit

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Olivier, Laurentz Eugene
Craig, Ian Keith
Chen, Y.Q.

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Grinding mill circuits are hard to control due to poor plant models, large external disturbances, uncertainties from internal couplings, and process variables that are difficult to measure. This paper proposes a novel fractional order disturbance observer (FO-DOB) for a run-of-mine (ROM) ore milling circuit. A fractional order low pass filter (Q-filer) is used in the DOB to offer an additional degree of freedom in tuning for set-point tracking performance and disturbance rejection performance. Another disturbance observer is introduced in which a Bode ideal cut-off (BICO) filter is used for the Q-filter. A full non-linear plant model is used for evaluation of the performance gained over the ubiquitous PI controller. The simulation results show that the FO-DOB and BICO-DOB schemes are useful additional tools for ROM ore milling circuit control implementations.

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Bode ideal cut-off, Disturbance observer, Fractional order, Milling, Run-of-mine ore

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L.E. Olivier, et al., Fractional order and BICO disturbance observers for a run-of-mine ore milling circuit, J. Process Control (2011), doi:10.1016/j.jprocont.2011.11.001