摘要

Nonlinearity, uncertainties, and disturbances exist extensively in wastewater treatment processes (WWTPs), which result in control performance degradation and critical instability. To solve this problem, an efficient self-organizing sliding-mode controller (SOSMC) is proposed to achieve acceptable and stable control performance for WWTPs. The novelties of SOSMC involve: 1) a practical control strategy, combining advantages of sliding-mode control and fuzzy-neural network, was designed to suppress the disturbances and uncertainties of WWTPs; 2) a self-organizing mechanism, based on the tracking error and structure complexity, was developed to alleviate the chattering phenomenon of SOSMC and improve the control performance; and 3) the stability analysis, including the fixed and adaptive structures, was given to ensure the successful applications of SOSMC. Finally, experimental investigations on a real WWTP are employed to validate the merits of the proposed method.