Continuous process control using neural networks |
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Authors: | Aloke Guha |
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Affiliation: | (1) Honeywell Sensor and System Development Center, 3660 Technology Drive, 55418 Minneapolis, MN, USA |
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Abstract: | We present some adaptive control strategies based on neural networks that can be used for designing controllers for continuous process control problems. Specifically, a learning algorithm has been formulated based on reinforcement learning, a weakly supervised learning technique, to solve set-point control and control scheduling for continuous processes where the process cannot be modeled easily. It is shown how reinforcement learning can be used to learn the control strategy adaptively based on exploration of the control space without making assumptions about the process model. A new learning scheme, handicapped learning, was developed to learn a control schedule that specifies a schedule of set points. Applications studied include the control of a nonisothermal continuously stirred tank reactor at its unstable state and the learning of the daily time-temperature schedule for an environment controller. Experimental results demonstrate good learning performance, indicating that the learning algorithm can be used for solving transient startup and boundary value control problems. |
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Keywords: | reinforcement learning neural networks continuous process control set points control scheduling |
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