摘要：Wood planers are high speed sophisticated lumber finishing machines that are difficult to operate and for which the available data shows complex, non-linear patterns. We present a machine learning approach to build a control loop for an industrial wood planer. In order to predict the thickness of the outgoing boards with better accuracy than the industry standard whilst allowing dynamic planer adjustments, we use an ensemble of Gaussian Processes with a specialized weighting scheme we call Automatic State Matching. It reduces the prediction error by 39% compared to current industrial practice.
