Extruder melt temperature control with fuzzy logic

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 44, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 8577-8582

  Abeykoon, Chamil ^a   Li, Kang ^a   McAfee, Marion ^b   Martin, Peter J ^a   Irwin, George W ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b Atlantic Technological University   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fuzzy control; Melt temperature variation; Polymer extrusion

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; EXTRUDERS; EXTRUSION; FUZZY CONTROL; FUZZY LOGIC; PROPORTIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TWO TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CONTROLLER PERFORMANCE; CONVENTIONAL PROPORTIONAL INTEGRALS; IN-PROCESS CONTROL; MELT TEMPERATURE; OPERATING REGIONS; POLYMER EXTRUSION; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THERMAL MONITORING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84866751891     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.01576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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