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Thermal Process Control Using Neural Model and Genetic Algorithm

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Predictive Controller of a laboratory thermal process is presented in the paper. Process model is approximated by a neural network. On-line optimization is done by a genetic algorithm. Control algorithm is tested on the laboratory thermal process and compared to the standard control methods like predictive controller with the transfer and state-space linear model and the quadratic programming optimization method or a PI controller.

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This research was supported by Institutional support of The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic at University of Pardubice and SGS grant at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics.

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Honc, D., Doležel, P., Merta, J. (2019). Thermal Process Control Using Neural Model and Genetic Algorithm. In: Silhavy, R., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z. (eds) Intelligent Systems Applications in Software Engineering. CoMeSySo 2019 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1046. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30329-7_35

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