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An adaptive control method for the dissolved oxygen concentration in wastewater treatment plants

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The activated sludge process plays a vital role in the treatment of the civil wastewater. In the operation of the activated sludge process, a key variable is dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration. In this paper, a neural nonlinear adaptive control design technique is presented to solve the DO concentration control problem for an uncertain wastewater treatment process. In the controller design, all uncertain dynamics of the wastewater treatment are approximated by using radial basis function neural networks. Then, it is rigorously proved that semiglobal uniform ultimate boundedness of all the closed-loop system signals is guaranteed by the Lyapunov method. Finally, simulation studies are performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed adaptive controller. Comparing with the existing controllers, simulation results show that a satisfactory performance is obtained using the proposed adaptive controllers.

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The authors would like to thank the Associate Editor and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and insightful comments for further improving the quality and presentation of this paper. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61473121 and 61374119.

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  1. College of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, 510641, Guangzhou, China

    Mei-Jin Lin & Fei Luo

  2. Department of Automation, Foshan University, 528000, Foshan, Guangdong, China

    Mei-Jin Lin

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Lin, MJ., Luo, F. An adaptive control method for the dissolved oxygen concentration in wastewater treatment plants. Neural Comput & Applic 26, 2027–2037 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-015-1858-3

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