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  • Refrigeration systems are vital for public health and daily life, impacting food safety, transportation, and medical care.
  • Poor temperature control in refrigeration leads to health issues, food spoilage, and patient harm.
  • Refrigeration consumes significant electricity, contributing to carbon emissions and environmental concerns.

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  • To develop an optimal control strategy for refrigeration systems to enhance temperature regulation.
  • To improve energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of refrigeration technologies.
  • To ensure better public health outcomes through reliable temperature control.

Main Methods:

  • System identification using a least squares method.
  • Initial tuning of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller parameters with Matlab's pidTuner Toolbox.
  • Optimization of PID controller parameters using the fruit fly optimization (FOA) algorithm.

Main Results:

  • The proposed optimal PID controller demonstrates superior temperature controllability compared to existing methods.
  • The optimized controller significantly reduces overshoot and settling time for stable temperature performance.
  • Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the fruit fly optimization algorithm in enhancing PID control.

Conclusions:

  • The developed optimal PID control strategy effectively improves refrigeration system performance.
  • This approach offers a promising solution for energy-efficient and reliable temperature management in refrigeration.
  • The study highlights the potential of intelligent algorithms like FOA in optimizing critical control systems.