• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.306-311
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• 1996

This paper discusses the maintenance of the water level of steam generators at its programmed value. The process, the water level of a steam generator, has the nonminimum phase property. So, it causes a reverse dynamics called a swell and shrink phenomenon. This phenomenon is severe in a low power condition below 15 %, in turn makes the start-up of the power plant too difficult. The control algorithm used here incorporates a pole-assignment scheme into the minimum variance strategy and we use a parallel adaptation algorithm for the parameter estimation, which is robust to noises. As a result, the total control system can keep the water level constant during full power by locating closed-loop poles appropriately, although the process has the characteristics of high complexity and nonlinearity. Also, the extra perturbation signals are added to the input signal such that the control system guarantee persistently exciting. In order to confirm the control performance of a proposed pole-assignment self-tuning controller we perform a computer simulation in full power range.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.283-292
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• 1996

Automatic guidance of farm tractors would improve productivity by reducing operator fatigue and increasing machine performance. To control tractors within $\pm$5cm of the desired path, fuzzy and adaptive steering controllers were developed to evaluate their characteristics and performance. Two input variables were position and yaw errors, and a steering command was fed to tractor model as controller output. Trapezoidal membership functions were used in the fuzzy controller, and a minimum-variance adaptive controller was implemented into the 2-DOF discrete-time input-output model. For unit-step and composite paths, a dynamic tractor simulator was used to test the controllers developed. The results showed that both controllers could control the tractor within $\pm$5cm error from the defined path and the position error of tractor by fuzzy controller was the bigger of the two. Through simulations, the output of self-tuning adaptive controller was relatively smooth, but the fuzzy controller was very sensitive by the change of gain and the shape of membership functions. Contrarily, modeling procedure of the fuzzy controller was simple, but the adaptive controller had very complex procedure of design and showed that control performance was affected greatly by the order of its model.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1986.07a
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• pp.169-172
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• 1986

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.21-28
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• 2004

This paper presents a direct multivariable self-tuning controller using neural network which adapts to the changing parameters of the higher order multivariable nonlinear system with nonminimum phase behavior, mutual interactions and time delays. The nonlinearities are assumed to be globally bounded, and a multivariable nonlinear system is divided linear part and nonlinear part. The neural network is used to estimate the controller parameters, and the control output is obtained through estimated controller parameter. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm the computer simulation is done to adapt the multivariable nonlinear nonminimm phase system with time delays and changed system parameter after a constant time. The proposed method compared with direct multivariable adaptive controller using neural network.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.833-844
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• 1995

In self-tuning predictive control algorithm for steam generator is presented. The control algorithm is derived by suitably modifying the generalized predictive control algorithm. The main feature of the unposed method relies on considering the measurable disturbance and a simple adaptive scheme for obtaining the controller gain when the parameters of the plant are unknown. This feature makes the proposed approach particularly appealing for water level control of steam generator when measurable disturbance is used. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, computer simulations are done for an PWR steam generator model. Simulation result show satisfactory performances against load variations and steam flow rate estimation errors. It can be also observed that the proposed algorithm exhibit better responses than a conventional PI controller.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07b
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• pp.682-684
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• 1995

The most effective way to improve the performance of a fuzzy controller may be to optimize look-up values. Look-up values are derived from processes used input-output scale factors, membership functions, rule base, fuzzy inference method and defuzzification. It is powerful way to modify or organize look-up table values. In this paper, We propose the look-up values self-organizing fuzzy controller(LSOFC). We use the plus-minus tuning method(PMTM), scanning values through the processes of addition and subtraction. We show the efficiency of this LSOFC by the results of simulation for nonlinear time-varying plant with unmodelled dynamics.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 1992.07a
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• pp.291-299
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• 1992

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.31B no.1
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• pp.34-40
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• 1994

The design and implementation of a fuzzy self-organizing controller for an environmental temperature chamber is discussed. The chamber is a non-linear, time-variant system with delay-time and dead-time. And the parameter tuning is required in PI control when the performance degraded. However the proposed fuzzy-SOC monitors the performance of the process. modifies the data base, and performs the delay-time compensation based on the idealized process model. A series of experiments was performed for the conventional PI and the fuzzy-SOC. These experimental results show the usefulness of the fuzzy-SOC.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1990.07a
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• pp.496-499
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• 1990

In this paper, the robustness of implict self tunning controller on the continuous time system is investigated. Continuous time exponentially weighted least square algorithm is used for estimating the system parameters. The pole-zero placement method is adapted for the control algorithm. On considering the control weighting factor and realizability filter the effects of unmodeled dynamics of the plant are examined by the simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07d
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• pp.2763-2765
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• 2003

Generally, we made use of PID control for torque control, speed control and stability, Hence, dynamic characteristic of DC motor has been studied for stable drive and accurate speed control by many engineers. But, in this paper, we applied genetic algorithm to current control for robust control and stability In conclusion, we prove that current control of genetic algorithm can be high efficiency.