TY - GEN
T1 - Expert control system based hierarchical control strategy for tunnel microwave rice drying
AU - Liu, Tong
AU - Liang, Shan
AU - Hu, Jinglu
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 61771077 and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Funding Information:
*This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 61771077 and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under grant EP/P004636/1.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 EUCA.
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - Tunnel microwave heating technology has been widely used in grain drying. Development of a reliable control strategy for this process plays an essential role in improving the overall efficiency and productivity. Thus, a tunnel microwave heating system, which can automatically and continuously adjust microwave power and control sample temperature, is designed and used in rice drying. The rice sample is first dried with three fixed microwave power levels to obtain the prior knowledge of tunnel microwave drying process. An expert control system (ECS) based hierarchical control strategy is then developed to regulate the microwave power and track the desired drying temperature. The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is validated by experiment carried out in the system, which demonstrates that the proposed strategy can commendably control the rice temperature.
AB - Tunnel microwave heating technology has been widely used in grain drying. Development of a reliable control strategy for this process plays an essential role in improving the overall efficiency and productivity. Thus, a tunnel microwave heating system, which can automatically and continuously adjust microwave power and control sample temperature, is designed and used in rice drying. The rice sample is first dried with three fixed microwave power levels to obtain the prior knowledge of tunnel microwave drying process. An expert control system (ECS) based hierarchical control strategy is then developed to regulate the microwave power and track the desired drying temperature. The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is validated by experiment carried out in the system, which demonstrates that the proposed strategy can commendably control the rice temperature.
KW - Expert control system (ECS)
KW - Grain drying
KW - Hierarchical control
KW - Tunnel microwave heating system
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U2 - 10.23919/ECC.2019.8795661
DO - 10.23919/ECC.2019.8795661
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85071553701
T3 - 2019 18th European Control Conference, ECC 2019
SP - 3619
EP - 3624
BT - 2019 18th European Control Conference, ECC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 18th European Control Conference, ECC 2019
Y2 - 25 June 2019 through 28 June 2019
ER -