Optimal Design of Sensor Parameters in PLC-Based Control System Using Mixed Integer Programming

Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) has been widely used in the industrial control. Inherently, the PLCbased system is a class of Hybrid Dynamical System (HDS) in which continuous state of the plant is controlled by the discrete logic-based controller. This paper firstly presents the formal algebraic model of the PLC-based control systems which enable the designer to formulate the various kinds of optimization problem. Secondly, the optimization problem of the ‘sensor parameters’, such as the location of the limit switch in the material handling system, the threshold temperature of the thermostat in the temperature control system, is addressed. We formulate this problem as Mixed Logical Dynamical Systems (MLDS) form which enables us to optimize the sensor parameters by applying the Mixed Integer Programming. key words: Programmable Logic Controller, sensor parameter optimization, mixed integer programming