Laboratory bench to analyze of automatic control system with a fuzzy controller

The paper represents laboratory bench to analyse a system of automated control with a fuzzy controller. The laboratory bench consists of a thermal object, and software and hardware complex involving logic controller VIPA System 200 V as well as HMI / SCADA system Zenon Supervisor 7.0. The thermal object is described with the help of the second-order differential equation using “current value within the power converter of electric heater-air temperature inside a thermal object” control channel. Coefficients of the differential equation depend upon location of a dampener and upon rotation frequency of a centrifugal fan. Control error (ie deviation between the specified temperature value within the thermal object and its current value), and derivative of the error, represented in the form of linguistic variables involving five triangular terms and two trapezoidal (extreme) ones have been used as the input values of the fuzzy controller. Output value of the fuzzy controller is the electric power supplied to the electric heater and assuming seven specified values. Selection of the specific value of electric power depends upon knowledge base being a finite set of rules of fuzzy sets falling into line with the applied linguistic variables. To implement such a system of automated control with a fuzzy controller, original software has been developed making it possible to analyze a process of thermal object heating with the use of human-computer interface. Interaction algorithm of certain program elements has been described. Experimental results, concerning the thermal object transfer from different initial conditions to terminal ones, have been demonstrated. A dependence of mean-square error of the controlled value upon the control period has been demonstrated