December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
18h 7m
English
DMC was developed by Shell Oil Company in the 1960s and 1970s (see Cutler and Ramaker, 1980). It is based on a step response model, which has the form (see Appendix 16.1 for a derivation)
Equation 16.6
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which is written in the form
Equation 16.7
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where ŷk is the model prediction at time step k, and uk – N is the manipulated input N steps in the past.
Note that the model-predicted output is unlikely to be equal to the actual measured output at time step k. The difference between the measured output (yk) and the model ...
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