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An Adaptive Parameter Control for the Differential Evolution Algorithm
The Differential Evolution is a floating-point evolutionary algorithm that has demonstrated good performance on locating the global optima in a wide variety of problems and applications. It has mainly three tu...
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Design of Continuous Controllers Using a Multiobjective Differential Evolution Algorithm with Spherical Pruning
Controller design has evolved to a multiobjective task, i.e., today is necessary to take into account, besides any performance requirement, robustness requisites, frequency domain specifications and uncertain mod...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Spanish Control Engineering Challenge: An Educational Experience
The Concurso de Ingeniería de Control (CIC) (Engineering Control Challenge) is a student challenge organized by the Comité Español de Automática - CEA (Spanish Committee of Automation) from Spain. It was set as a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Approach for HEV Energy Management System
Hybrid vehicles have become a promising solution to mitigate the negative effects of pollution and fossil fuel dependency, consequences (among other causes) of an increasing demand on mobility of people and go...
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Controller Tuning for Univariable Processes
In this chapter, a simple controller tuning statement by means of the multiobjective optimization design procedure is given. The aim of this chapter is to show a basic example in controller tuning and to focus...
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Comparing Control Structures from a Multiobjective Perspective
This chapter will illustrate the tools presented in previous chapters for the analysis and comparison of different design concepts. In particular, three different control structures (PI, PID and GPC) will be c...
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The ABB’2008 Control Benchmark: A Flexible Manipulator
In this chapter, a digital controller is tuned for the control benchmark proposed in 2008 by the ABB group at the 17th IFAC World Congress via multiobjective optimization. In some instances, a more realistic e...
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Multiobjective Optimization Design Procedure for Controller Tuning of a Peltier Cell Process
In this chapter a Peltier cell is used for cooling and freezing purposes. The main challenge from the control point of view is to guarantee the setpoint response performance for both tasks despite the process ...
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Multiobjective Optimization Design Procedure for an Aircraft’s Flight Control System
In this chapter, the multiobjective optimization design procedure will be used to tune the autopilot controllers for an autonomous Kadett ...
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Controller Tuning for Multivariable Processes
In this chapter, a multivariable controller is tuned by means of a multiobjective optimization design procedure. For this design problem, several specifications are given, regarding individual control loops an...
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The ACC’1990 Control Benchmark: A Two-Mass-Spring System
In this chapter, controllers with different complexity for the control benchmark proposed in 1990 at the American Control Conference will be tuned using a multiobjective optimization design procedure. The aim ...
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The 2012 IFAC Control Benchmark: An Industrial Boiler Process
In this chapter, a multiobjective optimization design procedure is applied to the multivariable version of the Boiler Control Problem, defined in 2nd IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control, 2012. The chapt...
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Multiobjective Optimization Design Procedure for Controller Tuning of a TRMS Process
In this chapter, the multiobjective optimization design procedure will be used in order to tune the controller of a Twin Rotor MIMO System (TRMS). For such process, a many-objectives optimization instance is t...
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Background on Multiobjective Optimization for Controller Tuning
In this chapter a background on multiobjective optimization and a review on multiobjective optimization design procedures within the context of control systems and the controller tuning problem are provided. F...
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Motivation: Multiobjective Thinking in Controller Tuning
Throughout this chapter, we intend to provide a multiobjective awareness of the controller tuning problem. Beyond the fact that several objectives and requirements must be fulfilled by a given controller, we will...
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Tools for the Multiobjective Optimization Design Procedure
In this chapter, tools for the evolutionary multiobjective optimization process and the multicriteria decision making stage to be used throughout this book (as a reference) are presented. Regarding the optimiz...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
TimeStacking: An Improved Ensemble Learning Method for Continuous Time Series Classification
Machine learning has gained great attention for solving time series classification problems. However, usual machine learning algorithms rely on learning from tabular data, and additional signal processing and ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-objective Logistic Regression for Anomaly Detection in Water Distribution Systems
Providing clean and safe drinking water is a crucial task for any water supply company. In such an activity, automatic anomaly detection plays a critical role in drinking water quality monitoring. Recent anoma...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Correction to: Data Science Applied to Vehicle Telemetry Data to Identify Driving Behavior Profiles
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Classification of Leukocytes: Comparison of Different Feature Extraction and Machine Learning Approaches
Blood cells can be separated into three types: erythrocytes, leukocytes and platelets, and to evaluate the health of a patient, a Complete Blood Count (CBC) is necessary. CBC is amongst the most performed test...