In this chapter, the practical potentials of the sliding mode reference conditioning (SMRC) approach to deal with different kinds of constraints are illustrated with four case studies: (1) the pitch control of wind turbines with both amplitude and rate actuator saturation; (2) a clean hydrogen production system with structural constraints in which the electrolyser specifications require output bounds; (3) the tracking speed autoregulation of robotic manipulators in order to avoid path deviations; and (4) the regulation of ethanol concentration below a given threshold in the fed batch fermentation of an industrial strain for overflow metabolism avoidance.

Inspec keywords: manipulators; actuators; hydrogen production; industrial control; power generation control; variable structure systems; wind turbines; strain control

Other keywords: robotic manipulator; path deviations avoidance; concentration regulation; structural constraint; tracking speed autoregulation; industrial strain; actuator saturation; hydrogen production system; sliding mode reference conditioning approach; wind turbine pitch control; fed-batch fermentation; electrolyser specification; overflow metabolism avoidance

Subjects: Wind power plants