Comparison of soft-sensor design methods for industrial plants using small data sets

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2444-2451

  Fortuna, Luigi ^a   Graziani, Salvatore ^a   Xibilia, Maria Gabriella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Industrial plants; Nonlinear system identification; Small data sets; Soft sensors (SSs)

Indexed keywords

CRACKING (CHEMICAL); NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

BOOTSTRAP RESAMPLING; GENERALIZATION CAPABILITY; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY; NOISE INJECTION; SMALL DATA SET; SOFT SENSORS; THERMAL CRACKING; TRAINING DATA SETS;

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS;

EID: 67949083521     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2016386     Document Type: Article

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