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Fully connected structure for: (a) neural emulator and (b) neural controller.

Fully connected structure for: (a) neural emulator and (b) neural controller.

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An arbitrary choice of the neural controller adaptive rate can have a negative effect on the performance of the closed-loop system. In this study, we propose a novel methodology for neural controller adaptive rate using Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. The developed control scheme is composed of a recurrent neural networks emulator and contro...

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... One of the important difficulties to get neural network (NN) models is the training process which require search of an optimal solution for the network parameters. For online optimization, we can use gradient-descent (GD) method and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) method [17,18]. The known problem of the GD method is the learning rate selection, which affects the learning speed and stabilization. ...
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