The contribution of this paper is to provide a nonlinear MIMO scheme for a drying process, composed by four fuzzy controllers: Fuzzy Dehumidifier Controller (FDC-PD), Fuzzy Humidifier Controller (FHRC-PD), Fuzzy Electrical Resistance controller (FERC-PD) and Fuzzy Blower Controller (FBC-FD) and compare with results obtained previously with PID control scheme. The main aim is to allow the resear...

In this paper, a distributed generation including diesel generators, wind turbines, and microturbines are introduced, and their mathematical model is described using the Taylor expansion method. With the goal of computational complexity eliminating, the reduced order model (ROM) of microgrid components is considered. The results of the ‌‌studies indicate that the microgrid frequency is unstable...

One of the main problems of car-like robot is robust path following in the presence of sliding effect. To tackle this problem, a robust mix H2/H∞ static state feedback control method is selected. This method is the well-known linear robust controller which is robust against external disturbance as well as model uncertainty. In this paper, the path following problem is formulated as linear matri...

One of the high energy consuming devices in the buildings is the air-conditioning system. Designing a proper controller to consider the thermal comfort and simultaneously control the energy usage of the device will impact on the system energy efficiency and its performance. The aim of this study was to design a Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO), non-linear, and intelligent controller on...

This paper presents the design concept of a bio-botanic robot which demonstrates its behavior based on plant growth. Besides, it can reflect the different phases of plant growth depending on the proportional amounts of light, temperature and water. The mechanism design is made up of a processed aluminum base, spring, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and actuator to constitute the plant base and plan...

Control of three phase inverters has been an important issue in recent years. This paper proposes active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) scheme for controlling three phase inverters. The main advantage of ADRC that motivated us for using this controller for inverter is that it is model independent.  This controller is used in a double loop structure including an inner current loop and oute...

In this paper fractional order averaged model for DC/DC Buck converter in continues condition mode (CCM) operation is established. DC/DC Buck converter is one of the main components in the wind turbine system which is used in this research. Due to some practical restriction there weren’t exist input voltage and duty cycle of converter therefor whole of the wind system was simulated in Matlab/Si...

Two self-organising controller networks are presented in this study. The \Clustered Controller Network" (CCN) uses a spatial clustering approach to select the controllers at each instant. In the other gated controller network, the \Models-Controller Network" (MCN), it is the performance of the model attached to each controller which is used to achieve the controller selection. An algorithm to a...

An algorithm for a robust, fuzzy-logic based, sliding mode control is proposed for a class of discrete systems. The algorithm is based on input/output measurements and is suitable for real-time control. It combines soft-computing methods with advanced sliding mode control. The controller design is carried out via Lyapunov’s direct method. The new controller is compared to the optimally tuned PI...