Neural networks have been applied very successfully in the identification and control of dynamic systems. When designing a control system to ensure the safe and automatic operation of the gas turbine combustor, it is necessary to be able to predict temperature and pressure levels and outlet flow rate throughout the gas turbine combustor to use them for selection of control parameters. This paper describes a nonlinear SVFAC controller scheme for gas turbine combustor. In order to achieve the satisfied control performance, we have to consider the affection of nonlinear factors contained in controller. The neural network controller learns to produce the input selected by the optimization process. The controller is adaptively trained to force the plant output to track a reference output. Proposed Adaptive control system configuration uses two neural networks: a controller network and a model network. The model network is used to predict the effect of controller changes on plant output, which allows the updating of controller parameters. This paper presents the new adaptive SFVC controller using neural networks with compensation for nonlinear plants. The control performance of designed controller is compared with inverse control method and results have shown that the proposed method has good performance for nonlinear plants such as gas turbine combustor.
