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Metaheuristic Procedures for the Determination of a Bank of Switching Observers toward Soft Sensor Design with Application to an Alcoholic Fermentation Process

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  • Nikolaos D. Kouvakas

    (Robotics, Automatic Control and Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory, Department of Digital Industry Technologies, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Euripus Campus, 34400 Euboea, Greece)

  • Fotis N. Koumboulis

    (Robotics, Automatic Control and Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory, Department of Digital Industry Technologies, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Euripus Campus, 34400 Euboea, Greece)

  • Dimitrios G. Fragkoulis

    (Robotics, Automatic Control and Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory, Department of Digital Industry Technologies, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Euripus Campus, 34400 Euboea, Greece)

  • George F. Fragulis

    (Internet of Things and Applications Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, 50100 Kozani, Greece)

Abstract

The present work focused on the development of soft sensors for single-input single-output (SISO) nonlinear dynamic systems with unknown physical parameters using a switching observer design. Toward the development of more accurate soft sensors, as compared with hard sensors, an extended design methodology for the determination of a bank of operating points satisfying the dense web principle was proposed, where for the determination of the bank of operating points and the observer parameters, a metaheuristic procedure was developed. To validate the results of the metaheuristic algorithm, the case of an alcoholic fermentation process was studied as a special case of the present approach. For the nonlinear model of the process, an observer-based soft sensor was developed using the metaheuristic procedure. First, the accuracy of the linear approximant of the process with respect to the original nonlinear model was investigated. Second, the I/O reconstructability of the linear approximant was verified. Third, based on the linear approximant, an observer was designed for the estimation of the non-measurable variable. Fourth, considering that the observer is designed upon the linear approximant, the linear approximant model parameters are derived through identification, for different operating points, upon the nonlinear model. Fifth, the observers corresponding to the different operating points, constitute a bank of observers. The design was completed using a data-driven rule-based system, performing stepwise switching between the observers of the bank. The efficiency of the proposed metaheuristic algorithm and the performance of the switching scheme were demonstrated through a series of computational experiments, where it was observed that the herein-proposed approach was more than two orders of magnitude more accurate than traditional single-step approaches of transition from one operating point to another.

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  • Nikolaos D. Kouvakas & Fotis N. Koumboulis & Dimitrios G. Fragkoulis & George F. Fragulis, 2023. "Metaheuristic Procedures for the Determination of a Bank of Switching Observers toward Soft Sensor Design with Application to an Alcoholic Fermentation Process," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(23), pages 1-42, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:11:y:2023:i:23:p:4733-:d:1285711
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