DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEMBASED ON MULTI-SENSOR DATA FUSION Cai Yan, Yang Hailan ,Hua Xueming and Wu YixiongAbstract: Temperature control system has been widely used over the past decades. In this paper, a general architecture of distributed temperature control system is put forward based on multi-sensor data fusion and CAN bus. A new method of multi-sensor data fusion based on parameter estimation is proposed for the distributed temperature control system. The major feature of the system is its generality, which is suitable for many fields of large scale temperature control. Experiment shows that this system possesses higher accuracy, reliability, good real—time characteristic and wide application prospectKeywords: Distributed control system; CAN bus; intelligent CAN node; multi-sensor data fusion.1. Introduction Distributed temperature control system has been widely used in our daily life and production, including intelligent building, greenhouse, constant temperature workshop, large and medium granary, depot, and so on[1]. This kind of system should ensure that the environment temperature can be kept between two predefined limits. In the conventional temperature measurement systems we build a network through RS-485 Bus using a single-chip metering system based on temperature sensors. With the aid of the network, we can carry out centralized monitoring and controlling. However, when the monitoring area is much more widespread and transmission distance becomes farther, the disadvantages of RS-485 Bus become more obvious. In this situation, the transmission and response speed becomes lower, the anti-interference ability becomes worse. Therefore, we should seek out a new communication method to solve the pro...
