Investigation of Spatial Control Strategies with Application to Advanced Heavy Water Reactor

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Modelling and Control of Advanced Heavy Water Reactor.- Chapter 3: State Feedback Control for AHWR.- Chapter 4: Sliding Mode Control for Spatial Stabilization of AHWR.- Chapter 5: Spatial Control of AHWR using Fast Output Sampling Technique.- Chapter 6: Periodic Output Feedback for Spatial Control of AHWR: A Three-Time-Scale Approach.- Chapter 7: Discrete-time Sliding Mode Spatial Control of AHWR.- Chapter 8: Comparison of Spatial Controllers.- Chapter 9: Conclusions and Future Scopes.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.- Bibliography.

Ravindra K. Munje was born in Mangrulpir, India, in 1983. He received his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Mumbai University in 2005, his M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Pune University in 2009, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded in 2015. He has published around 30 papers in national and international conferences and journals. He is a life member of ISTE and the Institution of Engineers (India), and a member of the IEEE and IET. His areas of interest include modeling of large-scale systems and design of controllers based on modern control techniques such as multirate output feedback (like fast output sampling and periodic output feedback), singular perturbation techniques, and sliding mode control. At present, he is working as an associate professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of K.K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education and Research, Nashik.

Balasaheb M. Patre received B.E. and M.E. degrees in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from Marathwada University, Aurangabad in 1986 and 1990, respectively and a PhD. in Systems and Control Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1998. He has published around 160 papers in international journals and conferences. He has presented his research work at Cambridge University, UK, and in Germany. He is a life member of ISTE and the Instrument Society of India, a member of IETE, and a senior member of the IEEE and IET. He is a reviewer for several international Journals. His areas of interest include sliding mode control and its applications, robust control, large-scale systems, interval arithmetic applications, intelligent control, etc. At present, he is working as a Professor of Instrumentation Engineering at the SGGS Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, India.


Dr. A P Tiwari joined BARC through the 28th batch of BARC training school. He completed