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Genetic Programming of a Microcontrolled Water Bath Plant

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2006)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 4253))

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Typically, control system design leads to a higher-order non-linear function of the system’s state variables. As a result, it is very hard to find a satisfactory mathematical solution. On the other hand, considering a microcontroller based implementation, another difficulty is to program it to carry out the desired control algorithm. This paper presents the application of linear genetic programming in the automatic synthesis of a microcontroller assembly program, which performs an optimized control of a water bath plant. The synthesis starts from the plant’s mathematical modeling and supplies directly a assembly code for the microcontroller platform. When comparing the control performance of the synthesized program with that of a neuro-fuzzy based controller, the synthesized program proved to perform slightingly better.

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  1. ICA – Applied Computational Intelligence Lab, Electrical Engineering Department, PUC-Rio – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, R. Marquês de São Vicente 225 Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, CEP 22453-900, RJ, Brazil

    Douglas Mota Dias & Marco Aurélio C. Pacheco

  2. Department of Electronics Engineering, UERJ – Rio de Janeiro State University, R. São Francisco Xavier, 524, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, CEP 20550-013, RJ, Brazil

    José Franco M. Amaral

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  1. School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, UK

    Bogdan Gabrys

  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Dias, D.M., Pacheco, M.A.C., Amaral, J.F.M. (2006). Genetic Programming of a Microcontrolled Water Bath Plant. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4253. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11893011_40

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