... globalization is increasingly occurring and this means that, to stay in business, manufacturing industries are necessarily placing increasing emphasis on issues of quality and efficiency Indeed, in today’s ... concerned with designing, implementing and maintaining these systems As we shall see later, this is one of the most challenging and interesting areas of modern engineering Indeed, to carry out control ... materials and forces of nature to their advantage Early examples of control devices include clock regulating systems andmechanisms for keeping wind-mills pointed into the wind A key step forward in...
... and J Blouin, “Integrating reflexes and voluntary behaviours: coordination and adaptation controls in man,” in Human and Machine Perception: Information Fusion, V Cantoni, V D Gesu, A Setti, and ... USA, 1997 [28] J E Cutting and P M Vishton, “Perceiving layout and knowing distances,” in Perception of Space and Motion, W Epstein and S Rogers, Eds., Handbook of Perception and Cognition, pp 70–118, ... broad public using 3D visualization and reconstruction techniques The original objects were scanned in a CT system and after processing the data, the handmade plates, bowls and pots andtheir relief...
... (i, t) (3) Tin (i, t) = Cc Tin (i, t) T (i, t) env with Ac = −1 rin cenv rin cin rin cenv renv +rin − renv rin cin , Bc = −cin , Fc = 0 renv cin w cin and Cc = This model allows a rather ... Number of variables 201 continuous, 12 binary 316 continuous, 20 binary 474 continuous, 24 binary 474 continuous, 24 binary 1792 continuous, 91 binary Number of constraints 204 318 479 479 1711 ... room heating, cooking in oven and lighting can be found A service with index i is denoted SRV (i ) Appliances are just involved in services: they are not central from an inhabitant point of view...
... river basin, including the Hoa Binh reservoir The MIKE 11 modelling system is set up for the lower part of the Red River basin to simulate inflow to the Hoa Binh reservoir and water flow in the ... system can be further improved in real-time by fine-tuning the reservoir releases using real-time and forecast information In this case, the MIKE 11 modelling and reservoir control system uses ... turbines as well as opening and closing bottom gates and spillways The control strategies are defined using a list of logical statements according to priorities of the different controls Opening...
... river basin, including the Hoa Binh reservoir The MIKE 11 modelling system is set up for the lower part of the Red River basin to simulate inflow to the Hoa Binh reservoir and water flow in the ... turbines as well as opening and closing bottom gates and spillways The control strategies are defined using a list of logical statements according to priorities of the different controls Opening ... of research and teaching experience in hydrological modelling and water resources management From 1978 to 1989 he was Head of the Institute of Hydrodynamics and Water Resources, andin the period...
... state-space minimization using a slicing-based pruning as well as by exploiting dependency among events In this work, we focus on checking security properties including sensitive data leakage involving ... 96 xi Chapter Introduction 1.1 Insecurity of Building Computer Systems Individuals and enterprises are extensively entrusting their security-sensitive information and core business to computer ... techniques in soware engineering, including program analysis [205, 45, 82], reverse engineering [96, 73], taint analysis [95, 44], etc., to extract and vet the behaviors of a system or track the information...
... able to maintain stability and performance level in spite of uncertainties in system dynamics and/ or in the working environment to a certain degree Design requirements such as gain margin and phase ... into a standard configuration as in Figure 4.2 This can be obtained by using the LFT technique introduced in Chapter and by specifying/grouping signals into sets of external inputs, outputs, input ... particularly brought into the limelight during the last two decades In classical single-input single-output control, robustness is achieved by ensuring good gain and phase margins Designing for good...
... expense of chattering in the control variable It is shown in Chapter that combining quantitative feedback theory and sliding mode control can alleviate this phenomenon An integral sliding mode controller ... computing and self-organizing systems It is outlined how the robust control problem can be represented in an information theoretic setting using entropy A toolbox for the robust fuzzy control using ... Chapter 11 New Robust Tracking and Stabilization Methods for Significant Classes of Uncertain Linear and Nonlinear Systems Laura Celentano Part 247 Special Topics in Robust and Adaptive Control 271...
... of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS) France 2,3 Tunisia Introduction Robust control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and applied mathematics literature Since its introduction in 1980’s, ... system contains uncertainties and time-varying delay By using theorem with the choice of λ = 5, τ (t) = 0.25 + 0.15 sin(t)(τ = 0.4, β = 0.15), we can obtain the following state-feedback gain matrices: ... grown to become a major scientific domain For example, it gained a foothold in Economics in the late 1990 and has seen increasing numbers of Economic applications in the past few years This theory...
... here to obtain a fuzzy model from (57) By decomposing the nonlinear term and integring nonlinearities of x2 (t ) into + x1 ( t ) incertainties, then (20) is represented by the following fuzzy model: ... set of indices i for which gi ( k ) is an external input, defining ß as the set of indices i for which y i ( k ) is an internal input or a neuron output, and defining ui ( k ) as the combination ... Ad ] matrix Discretizing the system with Ts = 0.1 sec., using a step input with learning time Tl = 15 sec., and training the ANN for the input/output data with η = 0.001 and initial weights for...
... establish and approximate a state feedback control Finish training when the training performance is satisfactory Repeat this nominal layer training process for all the nominal neural networks Training ... of nonlinear systems using the neural network based techniques The systems of interest are linear in both control and parameters, and feature time-varying, parametric uncertainties, confined control ... Artificial Intelligence and Application, Innsbruck, Austria, 2004 [6] S Boyd, L El Ghaoui, E Feron, and V Balakrishnan, Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory, Society for Industrial and...
... system in the near optimal time control fashion with an unknown load P0 ranging and 10% of Pm Two nominal cases are identified The nominal neural networks have 15 and 30 neurons in the first and ... control of nonlinear systems, where there are system uncertainties in parameters, unmodeled nonlinear system dynamics, andin many cases the parameters may be time varying It is the main focus of ... Konstantinov, 2005) In abstract, a control system is robust if it remains stable and achieves certain performance criteria in the presence of possible uncertainties The robust design is to find a...
... reach and maintain s = while keeping the performance measure within bound In short, the implementation of integral sliding-mode control solves the in uence of matched-type nonlinearities and uncertainties ... uncertainties and nonlinearities, defined in the range space of input matrix (El-Ghezawi et al., 1983) But, in the presence of unmatched-type nonlinearities and uncertainties, the conventional sliding-mode ... parametric uncertainties and modeling inaccuracies chattering can be observed which causes a major problem in applying SMC alone In general, the chattering enhances the driver fatigue and also leads...
... The four case sliding surfaces are shown in fig 7, those are continuous The three case continuously implemented control inputs instead of the discontinuous input in Fig are shown in Fig without ... continuously approximated input Fig Four sliding surfaces (i)ideal sliding surface, (ii)no uncertainty and no disturbance (iii)matched uncertainty/disturbance, and (iv) unmatched uncertainty and ... are continuous The four case sliding surfaces are shown in fig 15, those are continuous also The three case continuously implemented control inputs instead of the discontinuous input in Fig 12...
... including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher Current printing (last digit): 10 PRINTED ... frequency domain, and time domain; and gain setting to achieve a desired output response peak value while tracking polynomial command inputs Chapters 10 and 11 describe the methods for improving Copyright ... systems and computers permeate life in all advanced societies today These systems and computers have acted and are acting as catalysts in promoting progress and development, propelling society into...
... tire deflection and the damping forces are in the linear regions of their operating ranges Let ( y A , z A ), ( y B , z B ) and ( yC , zC ) denote the coordinates of point A, B and C, respectively, ... while minimizing the cost function, as defined by the weightings of the input, state and output of the system, as follows The considered linear time-invariant system and the performance index ... from the road, and to maintain the traction between the tire and the road The suspension systems are classified into passive and active systems according to the existence of a control input The active...