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The moisture content in agricultural products will affect the quality. Fungi development happens if the moisture content is not optimum. This paper presents a non - destructive, simple, fast and low cost interface circuit to measure the moisture content of paddy grains heated in different temperature. The arrangement used is a high precision impedance converter. Ceramic capacitors of different values were used to check the measuring circuit. Using this circuit, moisture content of representative standard samples was measured and dielectric constant was calculated. The paper discusses the principle, technique, methodology and experimental set up used and the results obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a Hybrid Adaptive Neurofuzzy Control technique for speed control of BLDC motor drives. The proposed controller is an integration of adaptive neurofuzzy, fuzzy PID and PD controllers. The objective is to utilize the best attribute of fuzzy PID and PD controllers, which exhibits a better response than the neurofuzzy controllers. The error back propagation learning algorithm (EBPA) is used to train the data to minimize learning error. To validate the performance of proposed controller, simulations are done in MATLAB and comparison is made with PI, PD and fuzzy PID controllers. In addition, the performance of proposed controller is benchmarked with other controllers reported in the literature. The results of the proposed controller are promising in terms of quick settling time, zero peak overshoot and zero steady state error. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]