Nonlinear modeling of molten carbonate fuel cell stack and FGA-based fuzzy control

To improve the performance of fuel cells, the operating temperature of molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) stack should be controlled within a specified range. In this paper, with the RBF neural network’s ability of identifying complex nonlinear systems, a neural network identification model of MCFC stack is developed based on the sampled input-output data. Also, a novel online fuzzy control procedure for the temperature of MCFC stack is developed based on the fuzzy genetic algorithm (FGA). Parameters and rules of the fuzzy controller are optimized. With the neural network identification model, simulation of MCFC stack control is carried out. Validity of the model and the superior performance of the fuzzy controller are demonstrated.

Multi-Deme Parallel FGAs-Based Algorithm for Multitarget Tracking

For data association in multisensor and multitarget tracking, a novel parallel algorithm is developed to improve the efficiency and real-time performance of FGAs-based algorithm. One Cluster of Workstation （COW） with Message Passing Interface （MPI） is built. The proposed Multi-Deme Parallel FGA （MDPFGA） is run on the platform. A serial of special MDPFGAs are used to determine the static and the dynamic solutions of generalized m-best S-D assignment problem respectively, as well as target states estimation in track management. Such an assignment-based parallel algorithm is demonstrated on simulated passive sensor track formation and maintenance problem. While illustrating the feasibility of the proposed algorithm in multisensor multitarget tracking, simulation results indicate that the MDPFGAs-based algorithm has greater efficiency and speed than the FGAs-based algorithm.

Temperature modeling and control of Direct Methanol Fuel Cell based on adaptive neural fuzzy technology

Aiming at on-line controlling of Direct Methanol Fuel Cell （DMFC） stack, an adaptive neural fuzzy inference technology is adopted in the modeling and control of DMFC temperature system. In the modeling process, an Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Inference System （ANFIS） identification model of DMFC stack temperature is developed based on the input-output sampled data, which can avoid the internal complexity of DMFC stack. In the controlling process, with the network model trained well as the reference model of the DMFC control system, a novel fuzzy genetic algorithm is used to regulate the parameters and fuzzy rules of a neural fuzzy controller. In the simulation, compared with the nonlinear Proportional Integral Derivative （PID） and traditional fuzzy algorithm, the improved neural fuzzy controller designed in this paper gets better performance, as demonstrated by the simulation results.

Optimized Mamdani fuzzy models for predicting the strength of intactrocks and anisotropic rock masses

Development of accurate and reliable models for predicting the strength of rocks and rock masses is one of the most common interests of geologists,civil and mining engineers and many others.Due to uncertainties in evaluation of effective parameters and also complicated nature of geological materials,it is difficult to estimate the strength precisely using theoretical approaches.On the other hand,intelligent approaches have attracted much attention as novel and effective tools of solving complicated problems in engineering practice over the past decades.In this paper,a new method is proposed for mining descriptive Mamdani fuzzy inference systems to predict the strength of intact rocks and anisotropic rock masses containing well-defined through-going joint.The proposed method initially employs a genetic algorithm(GA)to pick important rules from a preliminary rule base produced by grid partitioning and,subsequently,selected rules are given weights using the GA.Moreover,an information criterion is used during the first phase to optimize the models in terms of accuracy and complexity.The proposed hybrid method can be considered as a robust optimization task which produces promising results compared with previous approaches.

Model of Land Suitability Evaluation Based on Computational Intelligence

A novel model of land suitability evaluation is built based on computational intelligence (CI). A fuzzy neural network (FNN) is constructed by the integration of fuzzy logic and artificial neural network (ANN). The structure and process of this network is clear. Fuzzy rules (knowledge) are expressed in the model explicitly, and can be self-adjusted by learning from samples. Genetic algorithm (GA) is employed as the learning algorithm to train the network, and makes the training of the model efficient. This model is a self-learning and self-adaptive system with a rule set revised by training.