Synchronization Analysis of the Supermarket Refrigeration System

Rafal Wisniewski, Liang Chen, Lars Finn Sloth Larsen

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Abstract

The supermarket refrigeration system typically has a distributed control structure, which neglects interactions between its subsystems. These interactions from time to time lead to a synchronization operation of the display-cases which causes an inferior control performance and increased energy consumption. The paper focuses on synchronization dynamics of the refrigeration system modeled as a piecewiseaffine switched system. Stability analysis is performed bygluing the subsystems and polyhedra together to form a single dynamical system defined on a coherent state space. Then, system behavior is analyzed using the bifurcation and chaos theory. It is demonstrated that the system can have a complex chaotic behavior, which is far from the synchronization. This shows that making the system chaotic is a good choice for a de-synchronization strategy. The positive maximum Lyapunov exponent is usually taken as an indication of the existence of chaos. It is used in the paper as a measure of performance for the tendency of the system to synchronize, that is, the higher value of the maximum Lyapunov exponent the lower risk for synchronization.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009 held jointly with the 2009 28th Chinese Control Conference. CDC/CCC 2009
PublisherIEEE
Publication date2009
Pages5562 - 5567
ISBN (Print)978-1-4244-3871-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control - Shanghai, China
Duration: 16 Dec 200918 Dec 2009

Conference

Conference48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period16/12/200918/12/2009

Keywords

  • control
  • hybrid systems

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