PID AUTOTUNING USING NEURAL NETWORKS AND MODEL REFERENCE ADAPTIVE CONTROL

15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002

PID AUTOTUNING USING NEURAL NETWORKS AND MODEL REFERENCE ADAPTIVE CONTROL¹

K. Pirabakaran and V.M. Becerra

Department of Cybernetics
The University of Reading
Reading, RG6 6AY
United Kingdom

This paper describes the application of artificial neural networks for automatic tuning of PID controllers using the Model Reference Adaptive Control approach. The effectiveness of the proposed method is shown through a simulated application.

Keywords: Autotuners, PID Control, Model Reference Adaptive Control, Neural Networks, Back–propagation

E-mail: v.m.becerra@reading.ac.uk

Session slot T-Fr-A21: Posters of Learning, Stochastic, Fuzzy and Nerural Systems/Area code 3e : Fuzzy and Neural Systems