DEVELOPMENT OF A CULTURAL ALGORITHM BASED-ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY FOR IMPROVED PROPORTIONAL-INTEGRAL-DERIVATIVE CONTROLLER PARAMETER TUNING
DEVELOPMENT OF A CULTURAL ALGORITHM BASED-ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY FOR IMPROVED PROPORTIONAL-INTEGRAL-DERIVATIVE CONTROLLER PARAMETER TUNING
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2017-01
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ADEBIYI, Busayo
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This research is aimed at the development of a cultural-algorithm based artificial bee colony
algorithm (CABCA) for improved Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller parameters
tuning. The normative and situational knowledge inherent in cultural algorithm were utilized
to guide the step size as well as the direction of evolution of Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) at
different configurations, in order to combat the disparity between exploration and exploitation
associated with the standard ABC, which results to poor convergence and optimization
efficiency. Four variants of CABCA (CABCA(Ns), CABCA(Sd), CABCA(Ns+Sd) and
CABCA(Ns+Nd)) were accomplished in MATLAB R2015a using different configurations of
cultural knowledge. A total of 20 standard applied mathematical optimization test functions
(Ackley, Michalewicz, Quartic, Sphere etc) were employed to evaluate the performance of each
CABCA variant. The results indicated that CABCA(Ns) performed best in 4 test functions
(20%), CABCA(Ns+Nd) also in 4 functions (20%), while CABCA(Sd) and CABCA(Ns+Sd)
performed best in 3 test cases (15%) and 2 test cases (10%) respectively. On the remaining 7
test functions (35%) of their results were similar. The CABCA(Ns) was chosen as the best
performed variant based on the success ratio, which is the number of successful runs that found
the solution. Hence, CABCA(Ns) was used to obtain the optimal parameters and
of a PID controller which was employed in the speed control of a DC motor. The DC motor
attained steady-state in 0.4178s with the CABCA-based PID controller as against 0.6778s and
2.2057s obtained using standard ABC and Ziegler-Nichols (Z-N) tuned PID controllers,
respectively.
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A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POST GRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF SCIENCE (M.Sc) DEGREE IN CONTROL ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
NIGERIA
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DEVELOPMENT,, CULTURAL ALGORITHM BASED-ARTIFICIAL,, COLONY,, IMPROVED PROPORTIONAL-INTEGRAL-DERIVATIVE,, CONTROLLER PARAMETER TUNING,