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EPSRC Reference:	GR/K82598/01
Title:	QUALITATIVE ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS.
Principal Investigator:	Leitch, Professor R
Other Investigators:	Reay, Professor D Reay, Professor D
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Project Partners:	University of Salford
Department:	Computing & Electrical Engineering
Organisation:	Heriot-Watt University
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 January 1996	Ends:	30 September 1999	Value (£):	326,247
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We proposed to develop the qualitative counterpart to, numerically-based, model reference adaptive control systems. The work will utilise (fuzzy) qualitative modelling techniques to simulate the behaviour of ill-defined and uncertain systems, typically found in the process industries. The development of such qualitative simulation algorithms has now reached a maturity that allows this research to proceed. This will allow qualitative and uncertain methods to be used in a formal way, thereby attaining the generality, adaptivity and re-usability, normally associated with model based methods without requiring the modelling precision essential to numerical techniques.The approach will also provide a formal basis for the generation of qualitative feedback control laws, based on the off-line compilation of qualitiative models. The methods developed will be applied to a case study taken from a subsystem of a Butadiene Separation Plant operated by BP Chemicals. This will be used to evaluate the efficacy of the methods to real industrial control problems.The industrial support for the project is provided by BP Chemicals, exploitation of the results will be through Cogsys Ltd. and dissemintation will be via the Cogsys Community Club, as well as through the normal academic literature.
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