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Heat Transfer Research

ISSN for PRINT: 1064-2285

Institutional price:	$2485.00
Issues per year:	8

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2006, Volume37

83 pages

DOI: 10.1615/HeatTransRes.v37.i7

Issue price - $363.00

Predictive Control Based on the Third-Order Laguerre-Volterra Model: Application to Regulate a Humidifying Process

T. Garna
Unité de Recherche ATSI, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir, Rue Ibn EL Jazzar 5019 Monastir, Tunisia

A. Mbarek
Unité de Recherche ATSI, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir, Rue Ibn EL Jazzar 5019 Monastir, Tunisia

H. Messaoud
Unité de Recherche ATSI, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir, Rue Ibn EL Jazzar 5019 Monastir, Tunisia

ABSTRACT

This paper proposes a new predictive control algorithm developed on the third-order nonlinear Laguerre−Volterra model which results from the expansion of discrete Volterra kernels on an independent Laguerre basis. The coefficients of such model are obtained by exploiting a new estimation technique of Support Vector Machines (SVM) based on the Statistical Learning Theory (SLT) that yields a unique and optimal solution. The new proposed predictive control algorithm is applied for the regulation of the humidity inside a drying blower.