摘要 |
Control of a process in accordance with both optimal process values (td), which may be fixed or slowly varying, and actual process output values (tr-1) generated during a previous interval (r-1) is accomplished by a differential process controller (10). The controller (10) employs two artificial neural networks (36 and 38), each generating a separate intermediate control vector for controlling the process in accordance with a separate one of the vectors td and tr-1. A first summing amplifier (42) computes the difference between the intermediate control vectors and generates a differential control vector which varies accordingly. A second summing amplifier (44) sums the differential control vector, together with the output signal of the summing amplifier generated during the immediately previous interval (r-1), to generate a control signal cr for controlling the process.
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