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PSO-Based System Identification and Fuzzy-PID Control for EC Real-Time Regulation in Fertilizer Mixing System

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作者： Yang Xu;Yongkui Jin;Zhu Sun;Xinyu Xue

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关键词： convergence and stability enhancement;EC control;fertigation automation;fertilization model identification;fuzzy-PID controller

期刊名称： Agronomy

ISSN： 2073-4395

年卷期： 2025 年 15 卷 5 期

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收录情况： SCIE（2025版）

摘要： In this article, we propose a fuzzy proportional–integral–derivative (Fuzzy-PID) controller that integrates a system-identification-based control strategy. We aim to address the challenge of regulating electrical conductivity (EC) in a fertigation system to ensure precise nutrient delivery. During fertilization, the nutrient solution EC value increases gradually and nonlinearly as water and fertilizer are integrated. Precise fertilizer injection is essential to maintain stable EC levels, preventing crop undernutrition or overnutrition. The fertigation process is modeled using a particle swarm optimization (PSO)-based system identification method. A Fuzzy-PID method is then employed to regulate the nutrient solution EC value based on the pre-determined or real-time identified transfer model. The proposed control strategy is deployed within a programmable logic controller (PLC) environment and validated on a PLC-based fertilizer system. The results show that the identified transfer model accurately represents the fertilizer mixing process, achieving a standard Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) value of less than 5% within 2 s using the proposed PSO-based identification method. In the simulation tests, the proposed Fuzzy-PID control rule would converge the nutrient solution to target EC values 1000 and 1500 μs/cm within a deviation band ± 50 μs/cm, within 6 s from the recorded identified transfer models and within 25 s from the real-time identified transfer models. In the device’s test, the convergence time of the fertigation EC control is approximately 16 s from the history data and 42 s from the real-time collected data, with a deviation band ± 50 μs/cm. In contrast, it may take over 70 s for the EC regulation of the same fertilization, using the classic control methods including conventional PID and Fuzzy-PID. The proposed control strategy significantly improves EC regulation in terms of speed, stability, and precision, enhancing the performance of fertilizer mixing systems.

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