Sensors for Next-Generation Electronic Systems and Technologies

Chapter 8 Intelligent flow sensor using artificial neural networks

Vaegae Naveen Kumar and Komanapalli Venkata Lakshmi Narayana

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India

Komanapalli Gurumurthy

Vellore Institute of Technology, Amaravathi, India

DOI: 10.1201/9781003288633-8

Contents

1. 8.1 Introduction: background of flow measurement and taxonomy
2. 8.2 Theory of the control valve
3. 8.3 The multilayer perceptron neural network
4. 8.4 FPGA implementation
5. 8.5 FPGA implementation of the sigmoid function
6. 8.6 FPGA implementation of the MLP neural network
7. 8.7 Discussion
8. 8.8 Summary
9. Bibliography

8.1 Introduction: background of flow measurement and taxonomy

In process-control industries, measurement and control of fluid flow rate is an important task. ...