Industries are faced with the choice of suitable process control policies to improve costs, quality and raw material consumption. In the paper pulp industry, it is important to estimate quickly the Chemical Oxygen Dem...
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Industries are faced with the choice of suitable process control policies to improve costs, quality and raw material consumption. In the paper pulp industry, it is important to estimate quickly the Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), a parameter that is highly correlated to product quality. Soft Sensors (SSs) have been established as alternative to hardware sensors and laboratory measurements for monitoring and control purposes. However, in real setups it is often difficult to get sufficient data for SS development. This work proposes Ensemble Methods (EMs) as a way to improve the SS performance for small datasets. EMs use a set of models to obtain better prediction. Their success is usually attributed to the diversity. Bootstrap and noise injection are used to produce diverse models. Several combinations of EMs are compared. The SS is successfully applied to estimate COD in a pulp process.
The paper proposes a stable indirect adaptive fuzzy predictive control, which is based on a discrete-time Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model and on the Generalized predictive control (GPC) algorithm. The T-S fuzzy model ...
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The paper proposes a stable indirect adaptive fuzzy predictive control, which is based on a discrete-time Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model and on the Generalized predictive control (GPC) algorithm. The T-S fuzzy model is used to approximate the unknown nonlinear plant, that to provide good accuracy in identification of unknown model parameters, three online adaptive laws are proposed. It is demonstrated that the tracking error remains bounded. The stability of closed-loop control system is studied and proved via the Lyapunov stability theory. To validate the theoretical developments and to demonstrate the performance of the proposed control, the controller is applied on a nonlinear simulated laboratory-scale liquid-level process. The simulation results show that the proposed method has a good performance and disturbance rejection capacity in industrial processes.
The paper proposes a method to select the best variables and respective time-lags for industrial applications when the objective is the estimation of a target variable using the information content of empirical data. ...
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The paper proposes a method to select the best variables and respective time-lags for industrial applications when the objective is the estimation of a target variable using the information content of empirical data. No further information is assumed about the process. The problem of jointly selecting the best variables and the respective time-lags is treated as a variable selection problem. This assumption implies an increase of input dimensionality and multicollinearity into input space. Then, a multidimensional mutual information estimator based on the l-nearest neighbor algorithm is used in a forward search procedure to select the best variables and and respective time-lags. To verify the performance of selected variables and delays, the method was successfully applied in two data sets. A least squares support vector machine was used as the main model for the soft sensor in both cases.
This paper proposes a method for Soft Sensors design using a Multilayer Perceptron model based on co-evolutionary genetic algorithms, called CEV-MLP. This method jointly and automatically selects the best input variab...
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This paper proposes a method for Soft Sensors design using a Multilayer Perceptron model based on co-evolutionary genetic algorithms, called CEV-MLP. This method jointly and automatically selects the best input variables and the best configuration of the network for the prediction setting. The CEV-MLP is constituted by three levels, the first level selects the best input variables and respective delays set, the second level is composed by the parameters of hidden layers to be optimized (number of neurons in the hidden layers and transfer function), and the third level is the combination of first and second level. The method was successfully applied, and compared with two state-of-the-art methods, in three real datasets. In all the experiments, the proposed method shows the best approximation accuracy, while all the design of the prediction setting is performed automatically.
The paper proposes a new method to automatically extract all fuzzy parameters of a Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) in order to control nonlinear industrial processes. The learning of the FLC is performed from controller ...
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The paper proposes a new method to automatically extract all fuzzy parameters of a Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) in order to control nonlinear industrial processes. The learning of the FLC is performed from controller input/output data and by a hierarchical genetic algorithm (HGA). The algorithm is composed by a five level structure, where the first level is responsible for the selection of an adequate set of input variables. The second level considers the encoding of the membership functions. The individual rules are defined on the third level. The set of rules are obtained on the fourth level, and finally, the fifth level, selects the elements of the previous levels, as well as, the t-norm operator, inference engine and defuzzifier methods which constitute the FLC. To demonstrate and validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, it is applied to control a simulated water tank level process.
The paper proposes an adaptive fuzzy predictive control method. The proposed controller is based on the Generalized predictive control (GPC) algorithm, and a recurrent fuzzy neural network (RFNN) is used to approximat...
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The paper proposes an adaptive fuzzy predictive control method. The proposed controller is based on the Generalized predictive control (GPC) algorithm, and a recurrent fuzzy neural network (RFNN) is used to approximate the unknown nonlinear plant. To provide good accuracy in identification of unknown model parameters, an online adaptive law is proposed to adapt the consequent part of the RFNN, and its antecedent part is adapted by back-propagation method. The stability of closed-loop control system is studied and proved via the Lyapunov stability theory. A nonlinear lab oratory-scale liquid-level process is used to validate and demonstrate the performance of the proposed control. The simulation results show that the proposed method has good performance and disturbance rejection capacity in industrial processes and outperforms the PID and the classical GPC controllers.
In the above-titled paper (ibid., vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 634-644, Mar. 2012), the affiliation of G. Falcao should have read as follows: G. Falcao is with the Instituto de Telecomunicacoes and department of electrical and...
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In the above-titled paper (ibid., vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 634-644, Mar. 2012), the affiliation of G. Falcao should have read as follows: G. Falcao is with the Instituto de Telecomunicacoes and department of electrical and computerengineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal (e-mail: gff@***).
This paper reports on development of AFM-like active CMOS-MEMS conductive probes and arrays. The active probes are aimed for scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) imaging and field-emission (FE) assisted nanostructure f...
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In today's renewable energy power generation systems, inverters have become key devices connected between energy sources and power grids. The newly presented quasi-Z-source inverter (qZSI) has the unique advantage...
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This paper concerns low-cost implementation of built-in repair analysis (BIRA) for embedded memories. As embedded memories become more and more dominant in system-on-chip (SoC) design, it is very crucial to achieve su...
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