Recent Progresses and Applications in Automatic Intelligent Control

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems & Control Engineering".

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School of Automation, Beijing Information and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China
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Dear Colleagues,

As an important field in the computer simulation of human intelligence, automatic intelligent control is a type of automatic control that can autonomously drive intelligent systems to achieve their goals without human intervention. Automatic intelligent control can cope with control problems in complicated systems characterized by non-determined mathematical models, high degree of nonlinearity and complex task requirements based on artificial-intelligence-driven learning, reasoning and decision making. In recent decades, automatic intelligent control has been widely applied in industrial and socioeconomic systems, such as advanced manufacturing systems, supply chain systems, logistical transportation systems, electrical power systems, etc.

The primary objective of this Special Issue is to focus on the up-to-date methodologies and applications of automatic intelligent control. Research papers that employ theoretical analysis and/or practical applications in the related scope are welcomed. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Artificial intelligence based automatic intelligent control;
  • Reinforcement learning in automatic intelligent control;
  • Data-driven automatic intelligent control;
  • Learning human by demonstrations in automatic intelligent control;
  • Application of automatic intelligent control in real-world control systems.

Prof. Dr. Hongfeng Wang
Prof. Dr. Yulong Wang
Prof. Dr. Qingkui Li
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Keywords

  • intelligent control
  • human intelligence
  • data driven
  • adaptation and learning control

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A Product-Design-Change-Based Recovery Control Algorithm for Supply Chain Disruption Problem
by Jingze Chen, Haodong Kang and Hongfeng Wang
Electronics 2023, 12(12), 2552; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12122552 - 6 Jun 2023
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In very recent years, large-scale disruptions brought by major global and local emergencies have posed many challenges with respect to the recovery control of supply chain systems. This work investigates a problem regarding the optimal control of a supply chain by considering product [...] Read more.
In very recent years, large-scale disruptions brought by major global and local emergencies have posed many challenges with respect to the recovery control of supply chain systems. This work investigates a problem regarding the optimal control of a supply chain by considering product design change in order to enable manufacturers to recover their disrupted supply chain quickly. A two-layer optimization model is developed, in which the lower model is used to optimize the product design change path, and the upper model is used to select the appropriate alternative suppliers and schedule the delivery of customer orders. To solve the developed model, a hybrid ant colony optimization (HACO) algorithm is designed, which is combined with a Gurobi solver and uses some special strategies. The validity of the proposed algorithm is illustrated experimentally through computational tests and systematic comparison with the existing methods. It is reported that the losses caused by supply chain disruptions are reduced significantly. The proposed model and algorithm can provide a potentially useful tool that can help manufacturers decide upon the optimal form of recovery control when a supply chain system experiences a massive supply disruption. Full article
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Decomposition-Based Bayesian Network Structure Learning Algorithm for Abnormity Diagnosis Model for Coal Mill Process
by Yuqing Chang, Leyuan Liu, Xiaoyun Kang and Fuli Wang
Electronics 2022, 11(23), 3870; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11233870 - 23 Nov 2022
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In the structure learning of the large-scale Bayesian network (BN) model for the coal mill process, taking the view of the problem that the decomposition-based method cannot guarantee the sufficient learning of abnormal state node neighborhood in the diagnosis model, this paper proposes [...] Read more.
In the structure learning of the large-scale Bayesian network (BN) model for the coal mill process, taking the view of the problem that the decomposition-based method cannot guarantee the sufficient learning of abnormal state node neighborhood in the diagnosis model, this paper proposes a new BN structure learning method based on decomposition. Firstly, a sketch is constructed based on an improved Markov blanket discovery algorithm and edge thickening and thinning. Second, the node centrality of k-path is used to search the important nodes, and the subgraph decomposition is realized by extracting these important nodes and their neighborhoods from the sketch. Then, through the targeted design of subgraph de-duplication, subgraph learning, and subgraph reorganization methods, the learning of large-scale BN is realized. This method is applied to public data sets, and its advantages and disadvantages are analyzed by comparing them with other methods. The advantage of the BN structure learning method of the abnormal condition diagnosis model is further verified by applying the method to the coal mill process, which is consistent with the original design intention. Full article
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