Heat capacity identification via Mahalanobis Taguchi System

This paper proposes a heat capacity identification method for cooking household appliances. In such appliances, a cooking flow is selected according to its cooking object capacity, hence identification of the heat capacity is a very important function. However, a conventional heat capacity identification method has been based on one variable using ldquoif-then rulesrdquo, thereby giving inaccurate results. This paper proposes a new heat capacity identification method that uses the well-known Mahalanobis-Taguchi system, which is similar to discriminant analysis. The effectiveness of this method is confirmed through an experiment.