Design of a Model Predictive Controller for Load Tracking in Pressurized Water Reactor

The state space model of the reactor core is modeled by expanding the differential equation model with Taylor series,and a model predictive controller is designed to achieve the automatic control of load tracking in pressurized water reactor（PWR） nuclear power plants.Quadratic programming（QP） is introduced for the optimal solutions of the model predictive control（MPC） system.To evaluate the performance of the designed QP-based MPC（QPMPC） controller for load tracking,simulations are designed,and the simulation results show that the proposed QPMPC controller can track the load changing swiftly and availably.