The application of input constrained controls on a power plant model

Input saturation is a nonlinear constraint that is widely encountered in physical systems. The success of dealing with input saturation may increase safety level of the system´s operation and its economic benefits as well. This paper presents the applicatons of some input constrained controls in the literatures to a power plant model. Especially, we carry out the design and analysis of the feedback control using model predictive control (MPC) and both continuous and discrete time anti-windup schemes. The simulation results are presented and the implications on the implementation and its related computation is discussed.