Title: A hybrid biogeography-based particle swarm optimisation technique for controlling modified quadruple tank process

Authors: Sutha Sangapillai; Lakshmi Ponnusamy; Sankaranarayanan Sekaran

Addresses: Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Jayaram College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India ' Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Jayaram College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India ' Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Jayaram College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract: The paper presents a biogeography-based optimisation (BBO), particle swarm optimisation (PSO) and proposed hybrid biogeography-based optimisation-particle swarm optimisation (BBO-PSO) for optimising proportional integral (PI) controller parameters for the level control of bottom two tanks in a modified quadruple tank process (MQTP). The simulation results are presented to prove the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid algorithm for minimising the objective function. The hybrid BBO-PSO has significant performance improvements in servo, regulatory and robustness responses.

Keywords: modified quadruple tank process; MQTP; decentralised PI control; hybrid BBO-PSO; minimum phase; performance improvement; robustness; biogeography based optimisation; particle swarm optimisation; PSO; proportional integral; simulation; level control.

DOI: 10.1504/IJENM.2016.075175

International Journal of Enterprise Network Management, 2016 Vol.7 No.1, pp.42 - 54

Received: 08 Nov 2014
Accepted: 30 Dec 2014

Published online: 06 Mar 2016 *

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