PROJECT TITLE :

Design of a Decentralized Controller for a Glass RTP System

ABSTRACT:

The planning of a decentralized controller has been studied as an integral half of the event of a business fast thermal processing (RTP) system for manufacturing show glass. The glass RTP system uses bulb-sort tungsten-halogen lamps for heating. A highly uniform temperature distribution with a most temperature difference of less than six °C between any 2 points is required throughout glass processing, no matter the scale of the glass. In planning a decentralized controller that satisfies this requirement, the issues of optimal sensor location, lamp grouping, optimization-primarily based controller tuning, and time-varying bias input signals were identified and solved. The performance of the controller was investigated experimentally and numerically.