Abstract

This paper presents a system based on a higher order Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller to improve the linearity and to compensate the hysteresis of a control valve. To highlight the benefits and drawbacks of the proposed approach, a Masoneilan Camflex II valve is used as a practical test bead. These results show that CMAC can effectively improve the valve performance. This improvement can be obtained by first collecting a set of data and then letting CMAC to learn the necessary actions to compensate the non-linear effects.