Application of fuzzy logic to control and estimation problems

Abstract

This chapter concentrates on application studies carried out within the Chemical Engineering Department at Strathclyde University. The second section of this chapter describes application studies using a fermenter problem. Both rule-based and relational models has been investigated and it has been found that both could produce very good results. The third section of the chapter describes the early stages of work on a project to apply relational modelling techniques to the control of a real industrial process. It has been demonstrated that rule based and relational system can be made to represent the sort of processes occurring in fermentation, and that relational modelling is easily applied to real industrial problems.