Adaptive control of combustion oscillations St´ephanie Evesque Self-excited combustion oscillations arise from a coupling between unsteady combustion and acoustic waves, and can cause structural damage to many combustion systems. Active control provides a way of extending their stable operating range by interrupting the damaging thermo-acoustic interaction. The active controller considered injects unsteadily some fuel into the burning region, thereby altering the heat release rate, in response to an input signal detecting the oscillation. Although the feasibility of such control configuration has been demonstrated on laboratory-scale experiments over 15 years ago, the triple challenge for full-scale applications is to adapt the controller response to varying operating conditions and guarantee that the controller will cause no harm while relying as little as possible on a particular combustion model. Several adaptive control designs which can meet some or all of these challenges are investigated theoretically and tested numerically and experimentally. The first control design considered consists of a FIR or IIR filter whose coefficients are updated according to the LMS algorithm. This adaptive controller is very attractive because it does not require any model of the combustion system which is learnt on-line via a system identification procedure using real-time measurements. Although effective control is achieved in the simulation, even under varying operating conditions and in the presence of a background noise, no guarantee of the long term stability and robustness of the LMS controller can be provided. This limitation is overcome in the second control design considered: a stable adaptive controller, denoted Self-Tuning Regulator (STR), is proposed for a general class of combustion systems satisfying some non-restrictive assumptions (reflected waves from combustor boundaries smaller than incoming waves, flame stable in itself, limited bandwidth flame response). A general open-loop transfer function W (s) from the controller output voltage driving the actuator to the pressure signal detecting the oscillation is derived: it is the product of a time delay tot and a transfer function W0 (s) shown to satisfy some general structural properties (stable zeros, small relative degree). Using root locus arguments, the minimum STR structure guaranteed to stabilise the general combustion system W (s) is shown to be a simple phase lead compensator if tot = 0, and the same compensator associated with a Smith controller if tot = 0. The adaptive rule for the STR parameters is derived based on a Lyapunov stability analysis, ensuring that they will converge to stabilizing values for the system. The STR design is extended to include an amplitude saturation of the control signal Vc , which is desirable in practical applications to limit the amount of fuel used for control purposes. The STR is very easy to implement in practice and promising results are obtained on a simulation based on a nonlinear ducted flame model and on an experimental set-up which consists of a laminar flame burning in a Rijke tube. 6
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