Erzincan Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi, cilt.13, sa.2, ss.828-838, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi)
In this paper, the design, simulation and performance comparison of the three different controllers applied to
the heat flow system (HFS) are presented. First, the dynamic model of the HFS was obtained and so as to test
the temperature control, sliding mode controller (SMC), adaptive sliding mode controller (ASMC) and adaptive
fractional order sliding mode controller (AFOSMC) are designed and applied. To analyse the performance of
the designed controllers a simulation environment is developed via the Matlab/Simulink software. The results,
obtained through a simulation environment are represented by tracking error, adaptation gain, response to
sudden changes, maximum overshoot, rise time and settling time and they showed that the heat flow system
follows the reference temperature profile trajectory with less errors, overshoot, rise time and settling time by
using the AFOSMC than the other controllers. Also, the maximum errors, rise time and settling time occurred
when the sliding mode controller is used.