Reducing Energy Consumption in the Control System of Mechanism for Mixing Viscous Composition Through Fuzzy Rules

The article discusses a device designed for mixing substances of different viscosities. Typically, devices of this kind have a control system that allows the object to function with the same time parameters, both when mixing ingredients and when stopping the mechanism. The consequences of this operating cycle are often thermal overheating of the engine and increased electricity consumption. In this regard, there is a need to study the existing control system with a view to further improving it, which will avoid the listed phenomena. As an option for solving existing problems at the facility, it is proposed to introduce a frequency converter into the control system, which is controlled by a fuzzy controller. The developed fuzzy controller is a fundamentally new block, the structure and operation of which is not based on controllers already available in the standard Matlab library. The use of the proposed regulator in the control system of the mechanism for mixing a viscous composition will reduce electrical energy consumption by 15.3 percent compared to the electrical energy consumption in the original control system.