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- From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
- Subject: Re: Use of hysteresis in control problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.164935.6493@rwwa.COM>
- Keywords: artificial neural networks,control
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:49:35 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.173800.401@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, raja@roma.berkeley.edu (Raja R. Kadiyala) writes:
-
- | The most simple example I can think of is the heating system in your
- | house. The thermostat kicks the furnace on at some temperature and remains
- | on until the temperature rises past the setpoint (e.g. one sets the therm.
- | to 68: the furnace kicks on at 67 and stays on until the temp reaches 72).
-
- Sometimes I just can't control myself... ;-)
-
- From knowedge gained in a previous lifetime as a HVAC tech, this ain't 'zactly
- right.
-
- Typical (modern) thermostats have a device called an ``anticipator'' which
- amounts to a little heating element that causes the thermostat to ``anticipate''
- the overshoot from the controlled system (aka the furnace) and shuts it down
- earlier that it would if it waited for ambient to reach the setpoint. They
- also have an adjustment for the ``differential'' (typically a movable magnet)
- that adjusts the deadband (hysteresis) around the setpoint.
-
- Whether your thermostat has an ``anticipator'' will generally depend on whether
- your furnace tends to overshoot. Forced-air furnaces and low volume hot-water
- furnaces don't have much overshoot and the thermostats for them don't usually
- have anticipators. Steam and gravity-fed hot-water systems usually do. Almost
- all thermostats have a differential adjustment.
-
- I hope I don't get too much heat for this deviation... ;-)
-
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