This paper presents load shifting strategy for cost reduction on manufacturing electricity demand side, by which a real test load profile had been used to prove the concept. Superior bio-inspired algorithm, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) had been implemented to optimize the upright load profile of load shifting strategy in the Malaysia Enhance Time of Use (ETOU) tariff condition. Subsequently, significant simulation results of operation profit gain through 24 hours electricity consumption had been analyzed properly. The proposed method had shown reduction of approximately 6% of the electricity cost at peak and mid peak zones, when 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100% load shifting weightages were applied to the identified 10% controlled loads consequently. It is hoped that the finding of this study can help poise the manufacturers to switch to ETOU tariff as well as support the national Demand Side Management (DSM) program

Bats sonar algorithm (BSA) as a swarm intelligence approach utilises the concept of echolocation of bats to find prey. However, the algorithm is unable to achieve good precision and fast convergence rate to the optimum solution. With this in mind, an adaptive bats sonar algorithm is introduced with new paradigms of real bats echolocation behaviour. The performance of the algorithm is validated through rigorous tests with several single objective optimisation benchmark test functions. The obtained results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the BSA in terms of accuracy and convergence speed and can be efficiently employed to solve engineering problems.

<span>Underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is important in underwater industries as well as for safety purposes. It can dive deeper than humans and can replace humans in a hazardous underwater environment. ROV depth control is difficult due to the hydrodynamic of the ROV itself and the underwater environment. Overshoot in the depth control may cause damage to the ROV and its investigated location. This paper presenting a new tuning approach of single input fuzzy logic controller (SIFLC) with gradient descent algorithm (GDA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) implementation for ROV depth control. The ROV was modeled using system identification to simulate the depth system. Proportional integral derivative (PID) controller was applied to the model as a basic controller. SIFLC was then implemented in three tuning approaches which are heuristic, GDA, and PSO. The output transient was simulated using MATLAB Simulink and the percent overshoot (OS), time rise (Tr), and settling time (Ts) of the systems without and with controllers were compared and analyzed. The result shows that SIFLC GDA output has the best transient result at 0.1021% (OS), 0.7992s (Tr), and 0.9790s (Ts).</span>

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This paper discusses the computing development of a control algorithm using Predictive Functional Control (PFC) for model-based that having one or more unstable poles. One basic Ballistic Missile model [10] is used as an unstable model to formulate the control law algorithm using PFC. PFC algorithm development is computationally simple as a controller and it is not very complicated as the function of a missile will explode as it reaches the target. Furthermore, the analysis and issues of the implementation relating linear discrete-time unstable process are also being discussed. Hence, designed PFC algorithm need to find the suitable tuning parameters as its play an important part of the designing the autopilot controller. Thus, the tuning of the desired time constant, Ψ and small coincidence horizon n 1 in a single coincidence point shows that the PFC control law is built better in the dynamic pole of the unstable missile mode. As a result, by using a trajectory set-point, some positive results is presented and discussed as the missile follow its reference trajectory via some simulation using MATLAB 7.0.

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