Sliding mode control of the space nuclear reactor system |
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Authors: | Shtessel YB |
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Institution: | Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Alabama Univ., Huntsville, AL; |
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Abstract: | The automatic control system (ACS) of the space nuclear reactor power system TOPAZ II that generates electricity from nuclear heat using in-core thermionic converters is considered. Sliding mode control technique is applied to the reactor system controller design in order to improve robustness and accuracy of tracking of a thermal power reference profile in a start-up regime and a payload current reference profile in an operation regime. Extensive simulations of the TOPAZ II reactor system with the designed sliding mode controller showed an improvement of the reactor system performance |
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