Networked control approaches for a nuclear power plant pressurizer subsystem*

This paper extends former results about the networked reference tracking control of a pressurizer in a pressurized water nuclear power plant. An L2-gain based method is used in a deterministic framework to compute the maximum allowable transmit intervals (MATIs) for the actually implemented dynamic inversion based controller that still guarantee the required performance. Furthermore, a stochastic linear quadratic regulator with a state estimator is also designed that can take packet losses into consideration. It is shown through the comparison that both methods are applicable for networked control but the LQ controller combined with a Kalman filter has better output variance properties.