Title: Relevance vector machines based modelling and optimisation for collaborative control parameter design: a case study

Authors: Jin Yuan, Cheng-liang Liu, Xuan F. Zha

Addresses: School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, P.R. China. ' School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, P.R. China. ' School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, P.R. China

Abstract: A new collaborative control parameter design strategy is proposed for economic plant control process. The relevance vector machines (RVMs) and genetic algorithms (GAs) are combined to generate the optimal control index table for controllers. More specifically, the probabilistic model based on RVMs is utilised to describe the non-linear behaviours according to the experimental dataset. The evolution-based optimisation model based on GAs is used for collaborative design of the optimum control parameter combinations. A variable-rate fertilising system is presented as an application case for collaborative generation of control index table with the combined accuracy, energy saving and fertilising-consistency optimisation objectives. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid approach.

Keywords: collaborative design; control parameter design; relevance vector machines; RVM; genetic algorithms; GAs; fertiliser spreaders; modelling; design optimisation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2009.028043

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2009 Vol.36 No.3/4, pp.191 - 199

Published online: 02 Sep 2009 *

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