The Turbine Technologies,Ltd. TurboGen Gas Turbine Electrical Generation System is a complete, self-contained jet engine electrical generation laboratory featuring the SR-30 Jet Engine and TG-2000 Electric Generator. Designed expressly for engineering education and research purposes, the TurboGen allows all aspects of gas turbine theory and electrical generation principles be easily demonstrated and readily explored. The compact engine features a inlet nozzle, centrifugal compressor, counter-flow combustion chamber, axial flow turbine and exhaust nozzle.
Fig. 1 Laboratory mini SR-30 GTE and its Simulink model
Fig. 2 Component-wise simulink model of Laboratory GTE
The hybrid two tanks (H2T) setup is conceptualized, designed and developed by systems and control engineering group, IIT Bombay. It is developed to provide a common experimental platform for linear models, nonlinear models, SISO and MIMO systems, with or without delays, etc. The setup consists of two acrylic tubular tanks of similar dimensions with height of 60 cm and radius of 15 cm, a reservoir, two pumps, two heaters and a variety of valves and instrumentation in order to allow it to be configured in a variety of ways. Tank 1 and tank 2 are connected to each other by means of valves name as belimo valve, which is used to define the interaction between the two tanks.
Fig. 3 Laboratory Hybrid Two-tank setup
An actor-critic, a well known reinforcement learning algorithm is implemented to control the water-level in the H2T system. The RL Control loop consist of states, action and environment and agent. The controller (agent) is, first trained offline with a deterministic model (environment) of H2T system. The control input (action) to H2T system i.e., percentage of opening of control valve and output (state) is level in tank 1 and tank 2. Once agent is trained efficiently, we can deploy it in real time system.