Intelligent neural network for modelling and control of an automotive air conditioning system

Air Conditioning (AC) System in the automotive is to provide the thermal comfort during the driving journey. Thermalcomfort plays an essential role in nowadays sophisticated modern vehicle.Monitoring and automatic control of air conditioning systems are important to ensure drive comfort are met duri...

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Main Author:	Yap, Yoon Loy
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48715/25/YapYoonLoyMFKM2015.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.487152020-06-18T01:31:40Z Intelligent neural network for modelling and control of an automotive air conditioning system 2015-01 Yap, Yoon Loy TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Air Conditioning (AC) System in the automotive is to provide the thermal comfort during the driving journey. Thermalcomfort plays an essential role in nowadays sophisticated modern vehicle.Monitoring and automatic control of air conditioning systems are important to ensure drive comfort are met during the journey, therefore, this research aims to study the Modeling of AC System of Automotive by using Intelligent Neural Network to achieve the desired cooling comfort. Intelligent Neural Network by neuro controller will be introduced to the automotive for the vehicle to control the air conditioning system and the goalof this project is to improve and maintain the occupant comfort level within car cabin with introduces various disturbances and at the same time achieve as an energy efficient vehicle.The objective of the project is to design a self-tuning neuro controller for the variable speed compressor of the Automotive Air Conditioning (AAC) system within Matlab-SIMULINK environment. In this research, Recursive Least Squares (RLS) system identification techniques were used to estimate the non-linear or dynamic model of the AAC system. The input and output data used to estimate the dynamic model of AAC system were obtained experimentally in the lab. The validity of the models was investigated based on mean square error (MSE) and correlation tests. From the parameter optimization and simulation, the optimum neural network structure of AAC system was obtained. Three types of controllers, namely PID, NARMA-L2 and NARMA-L2-PID were proposed in this research. The overall comparison of three conventional and neuro controllers was presented and discussed in this research. From the simulation results, it can be seen that the proposed hybrid NARMA-L2-PID controller has performed the best amongst all in term of the time response and the effective performance of the system as compared to the heuristic tuned- PID and NARMA L2 controllers. 2015-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48715/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48715/25/YapYoonLoyMFKM2015.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:86091 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
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topic	TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
spellingShingle	TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Yap, Yoon Loy Intelligent neural network for modelling and control of an automotive air conditioning system
description	Air Conditioning (AC) System in the automotive is to provide the thermal comfort during the driving journey. Thermalcomfort plays an essential role in nowadays sophisticated modern vehicle.Monitoring and automatic control of air conditioning systems are important to ensure drive comfort are met during the journey, therefore, this research aims to study the Modeling of AC System of Automotive by using Intelligent Neural Network to achieve the desired cooling comfort. Intelligent Neural Network by neuro controller will be introduced to the automotive for the vehicle to control the air conditioning system and the goalof this project is to improve and maintain the occupant comfort level within car cabin with introduces various disturbances and at the same time achieve as an energy efficient vehicle.The objective of the project is to design a self-tuning neuro controller for the variable speed compressor of the Automotive Air Conditioning (AAC) system within Matlab-SIMULINK environment. In this research, Recursive Least Squares (RLS) system identification techniques were used to estimate the non-linear or dynamic model of the AAC system. The input and output data used to estimate the dynamic model of AAC system were obtained experimentally in the lab. The validity of the models was investigated based on mean square error (MSE) and correlation tests. From the parameter optimization and simulation, the optimum neural network structure of AAC system was obtained. Three types of controllers, namely PID, NARMA-L2 and NARMA-L2-PID were proposed in this research. The overall comparison of three conventional and neuro controllers was presented and discussed in this research. From the simulation results, it can be seen that the proposed hybrid NARMA-L2-PID controller has performed the best amongst all in term of the time response and the effective performance of the system as compared to the heuristic tuned- PID and NARMA L2 controllers.
format	Thesis
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author	Yap, Yoon Loy
author_facet	Yap, Yoon Loy
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title	Intelligent neural network for modelling and control of an automotive air conditioning system
title_short	Intelligent neural network for modelling and control of an automotive air conditioning system
title_full	Intelligent neural network for modelling and control of an automotive air conditioning system
title_fullStr	Intelligent neural network for modelling and control of an automotive air conditioning system
title_full_unstemmed	Intelligent neural network for modelling and control of an automotive air conditioning system
title_sort	intelligent neural network for modelling and control of an automotive air conditioning system
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
publishDate	2015
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Intelligent neural network for modelling and control of an automotive air conditioning system

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