An on-line advisory control system for the lactic acid fermentation process

A fuzzy expert system was developed for online diagnosing and controlling of bioprocesses. The system was constructed in object-oriented Smalltalk/V for diagnosing and controlling of bioprocesses. Lactic acid fermentation with an industrial strain ofLactobacillus casei was chosen as the model system. The performance of the fuzzy expert system and the knowledge base utilizing experts' knowledge and several facts obtained from the experiments were successfully validated with on-line fermentations. The fuzzy expert system could diagnose a fault on-line and give reasonable advice to the process operator. In order to achieve the diagnosing faculty, a database, a knowledge base, and both backward and forward chaining procedures were implemented employing the object-oriented programming environment. A defuzzifier was implemented in the system to achieve on-line control. In order to realize a decision-making system with a human operator and a fuzzy expert system, a new control strategy namedAdvice was also introduced. Several cultivations were carried out in order to collect knowledge on the effects concerned with inoculum properties to the process and to construct a database including standard time-course profiles. The performance of the fuzzy expert control system was successfully tested with on-line experiments.

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