Influence of the length of disturbance measurement period and measurement costs on the costs of process control
Andrzej M Goscinski, BOŻENA PIEKARZ, Krzysztof Zieliński · International Journal of Systems Science · 1985
This paper deals with the influence of the time of disturbance measurement on the costs paid as a result of process control, i.e. the so-called operational costs. The total operational costs have been defined as the sum of operational costs and the costs of disturbance measurement. The character of the dependency of the total operational costs on the length of disturbance measurement period has also been studied. One of the ways of reducing the total operational costs connected with disturbance measurement can be the disturbance prediction method, the application of which we have discussed here. Moreover, we have proposed the study of an algorithm for choosing the optimal length of disturbance measurement period. The algorithm is constructed in such a way that it can minimize the total operational cost. Our theoretical considerations have been empirically confirmed by means of simulation.