From chaotic errors to natural curves: real-coded genetic calibration of wastewater treatment systems
摘要
Non-normal residuals in rule-based wastewater controllers undermine reliability and hinder statistical monitoring. This study resolves the issue by fusing a zero-order Sugeno fuzzy-inference system with a real-coded genetic algorithm that jointly tunes rule weights and membership functions while steering errors toward Gaussian form. Fuzzy-cognitive mapping reduces the candidate rule set to five dominant rules, which are then optimized on a training–testing split from a full-scale plant. The resulting controller lifts the treated-water-quality index from 51.08 to 69.28, lowers mean-squared error and attains a test RMSE of 0.03; the residual standard deviation is virtually identical, confirming a near-normal error distribution.