Automated control of an actively compensated Langmuir probe system using simulated annealing

Date

2002-07-01

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Journal Title

Journal ISSN

ISSN

0950-7051

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Publisher

Elsevier

Type

Article

Peer reviewed

Abstract

Description

This work was part of EPSRC project GR/M71039/01, Automated Optimisation and Control of Low Temperature Plasma Processes, whose research quality was rated internationally leading. Hopgood was Principal Investigator. A Langmuir probe requires 14 heavily interacting continuous parameters to be tuned. A novel simulated annealing method was shown to find better solutions quicker and more reliably than skilled human operators. The paper won a Recognised Paper award at ES-2001 (now known as AI-200x) and was invited for publication in a special issue of KBS journal. A demonstration of the system won the first British Computer Society Machine Intelligence Award in 2002.

Keywords

RAE 2008, UoA 23 Computer Science and Informatics, Simulated annealing, Optimisation, Langmuir probe system

Citation

Nolle, L. et al. (2002) Automated control of an actively compensated Langmuir probe system using simulated annealing. Knowledge-Based Systems, 15(5-6), pp. 349-354.

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Research Institute