Intelligent Control Systems: An Introduction with Examples

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Springer Science & Business Media, Apr 18, 2006 - Computers - 306 pages

Intelligent control is a rapidly developing, complex and challenging field with great practical importance and potential. Because of the rapidly developing and interdisciplinary nature of the subject, there are only a few edited volumes consisting of research papers on intelligent control systems but little is known and published about the fundamentals and the general know-how in designing, implementing and operating intelligent control systems.

Intelligent control system emerged from artificial intelligence and computer controlled systems as an interdisciplinary field. Therefore the book summarizes the fundamentals of knowledge representation, reasoning, expert systems and real-time control systems and then discusses the design, implementation verification and operation of real-time expert systems using G2 as an example. Special tools and techniques applied in intelligent control are also described including qualitative modelling, Petri nets and fuzzy controllers. The material is illlustrated with simple examples taken from the field of intelligent process control.

Audience: The book is suitable for advanced undergraduate students and graduate engineering students. In addition, practicing engineers will find it appropriate for self-study.

 

Contents

2
7
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
11
REASONING AND SEARCH IN RULEBASED SYSTEMS
31
2
59
VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF RULEBASES
61
TOOLS FOR REPRESENTATION AND REASONING
71
REALTIME EXPERT SYSTEMS
109
QUALITATIVE REASONING
137
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220
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227
Objects and object definitions
238
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275
31
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