Reheat steam temperature composite control system based on CMAC neural network and immune PID controller

Reheat steam circle system is usually used in modern super-high parameters unit of power plant, which has the characteristics of long process channel, large inertia and long time lag, etc. Thus conventional PID control strategy cannot achieve good control performance. Prompted by the feedback regulation mechanism of biology immune response and the virtues of CMAC neural network, a composite control strategy based on CMAC neural network and immune PID controller is presented in this paper, which has the effect of feed-forward control for load changes as the unit load channel signal of reheat steam temperature is transmitted to the CMAC neural network to take charge of load change effects. The input signal of the controlled system are weighted and integrated by the output signals of CMAC neural network and immune PID controller, and then a variable parameter robust controller is constituted to act on the controlled system. Thus, good regulating performance is guaranteed in the initial control stage and also in case of characteristic deviations of the controlled system. Simulation results show that this control strategy is effective, practicable and superior to conventional PID control.