Surekha Bhanot

Work place: Dept. of Electronics & Instrumentation, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, India

E-mail: surekha@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in

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Research Interests: Computer systems and computational processes, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Architecture and Organization, Solid Modeling, Data Structures and Algorithms

Biography

Surekha Bhanot was born in Patiala, India in 1957. She received the B.E. (Mechanical Engineering), M.Phil. (Instrumentation) and Ph.D. degrees from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, BITS Pilani and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, in 1979, 1983 and 1995, respectively. In 1979, she joined BITS Pilani as Teaching Assistant. In 1983, she joined Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET) Patiala. In 2002, she joined BITS Pilani as Associate Professor. From 2006 onwards, she is designated as Professor at BITS Pilani. Her research area of interest includes artificial intelligence applications in process modeling and control, biosensor design and applications, and biomedical signal processing and related instrumentation.

Author Articles
Optimized and Self-Organized Fuzzy Logic Controller for pH Neutralization Process

By Parikshit Kishor Singh Surekha Bhanot Hare Krishna Mohanta

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2013.12.09, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2013

To conform to strict environmental safety regulations, pH control is used in many industrial applications. For this purpose modern process industries are increasingly relying on intelligent and adaptive control strategies. On one hand intelligent control strategies try to imitate human way of thinking and decision making using artificial intelligence (AI) based techniques such as fuzzy logic whereas on the other hand adaptive mechanism ensures adjusting of the controller parameters. A self-organized fuzzy logic controller (SOFLC) is intelligent in nature and adapts its performance to meet the figure of merit. This paper presents an optimized SOFLC for pH control using performance correction table. The fuzzy adaptation mechanism basically involves a penalty for the output membership functions if the controller performance is poor. The evolutionary genetic algorithm (GA) is used for optimization of input-output scaling factors of the conventional fuzzy logic controller (FLC) as well as elements of the fuzzy performance correction table. The resulting optimized SOFLC is compared with optimized FLC for servo and regulatory control. Comparison indicate superior performance of SOFLC over FLC in terms of much reduced integral of squared error (ISE), maximum overshoot and undershoot, and increased speed of response.

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