Human-in-the-Loop Intelligent Control System for Continuous-Flow Grain Drying

Abstract:

Moisture content is one of the key controlled variables in grain drying processes. However, this variable cannot or is difficult to be controlled accurately, due to grain drying is a nonlinear process with multi-variables and long delay. To solve this problem, the study is focused on a new intelligent control system for continuous-flow dryer. Based on the manual control idea for controlling the outlet moisture content, a nonlinear process intelligent control algorithm is presented, a human-in-the-loop intelligent control model for grain drying is developed, a system of software structure based on Visual Basic 6.0 is designed.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 383-390)
• Pages: 1273-1278
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.383-390.1273
• Online since: November 2011
• Authors: Shi Jun Wang
• Keywords: Continuous-Flow Grain Drying, Human-In-The-Loop, Intelligent Control System, Visual Basic 6.0

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