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# IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

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Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology publication information

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s): C2
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• ### Predictive Guidance of a Projectile for Hit-to-Kill Interception

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):745 - 755
Cited by:  Papers (15)
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In this paper, a predictive guidance algorithm is developed for a spin-stabilized hit-to-kill guided projectile. The projectile is used as an interceptor against rockets, mortar, and artillery. Guidance is based on a new rapid trajectory prediction algorithm for projectiles fired at high quadrant elevations. The interceptor uses lateral pulse jets located near the mass center for control. High spi... View full abstract»

• ### Incremental Step Reference Governor for Load Conditioning of Hybrid Fuel Cell and Gas Turbine Power Plants

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):756 - 767
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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A hybrid solid oxide fuel cell and gas turbine (SOFC/GT) system exploits the complementary features of the two power plants, where the GT recuperates the energy in the SOFC exhaust stream and thereby boosting the overall system efficiency. Through model based transient analysis, however, it is shown that the intricate coupling dynamics make the transient load following very challenging. Power shut... View full abstract»

• ### Adjusting Output-Limiter for Stable Haptic Rendering in Virtual Environments

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):768 - 779
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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This paper presents a control method using an adjusting output-limiter for stable haptic rendering in virtual environments. In a simulation of force-reflecting interaction with deformable objects in the virtual environment, a quick computation of the accurate impedance of deformable objects is rare. This is particularly true when physics-based models, such as tensor-mass models or mass-spring mode... View full abstract»

• ### A Qualitative Event-Based Approach to Continuous Systems Diagnosis

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):780 - 793
Cited by:  Papers (20)
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Fault diagnosis is crucial for ensuring the safe operation of complex engineering systems. Although discrete-event diagnosis methods are used extensively, they do not easily address parametric fault isolation in systems with complex continuous dynamics. This paper presents a novel event-based approach for diagnosis of abrupt parametric faults in continuous systems, based on a qualitative ab... View full abstract»

• ### Multi-Objective Robust $H_{infty}$ Control of Spacecraft Rendezvous

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):794 - 802
Cited by:  Papers (91)
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Based on the relative motion dynamic model illustrated by C-W equations, the problem of robust Hinfin control for a class of spacecraft rendezvous systems is investigated, which contains parametric uncertainties, external disturbances and input constraints. An Hinfin state-feedback controller is designed via a Lyapunov approach, which guarantees the closed-loop system to meet the multi-objective d... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Control of an Electrically Driven Nonholonomic Mobile Robot via Backstepping and Fuzzy Approach

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):803 - 815
Cited by:  Papers (96)
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This paper investigates the tracking control of an electrically driven nonholonomic mobile robot with model uncertainties in the robot kinematics, the robot dynamics, and the wheel actuator dynamics. A robust adaptive controller is proposed with the utilization of adaptive control, backstepping and fuzzy logic techniques. The proposed control scheme employs the adaptive control approach to design ... View full abstract»

• ### Nonlinear Control Design for a Supercavitating Vehicle

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):816 - 832
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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Supercavitating vehicles can achieve very high speed but also pose technical challenges in system stability, maneuvering, and control. Compared to a fully-wetted vehicle for which substantial lift is generated due to vortex shedding off the hull, a supercavitating vehicle is enveloped by gas surface (cavity) and thus the lift is provided by control surface deflections of the cavitator and fins, as... View full abstract»

• ### Decreasing the Apparent Inertia of an Impedance Haptic Device by Using Force Feedforward

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):833 - 838
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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When using a haptic device in unconstrained movement, the user should experience only minor inertia. For certain tasks, the workspace of the device should be similar or even larger than that of the human arm. This condition tends to lead to large devices that often present high rather than low inertia. This brief describes a method to decrease the inertia felt by users of impedance haptic devices.... View full abstract»

• ### A Note on Integer Programming Formulations of the Real-Time Optimal Scheduling and Flight Path Selection of UAVs

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):839 - 843
Cited by:  Papers (21)
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In recent years, considerable attention has been given to research on various aspects of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) applications. UAVs are currently used for various military and civilian missions in the air, sea, space, and on the ground. In two recent papers, Shima (2007) and Kim (2007) considered closely similar m-UAV problems. In Shima (2007), the problem is considered with each target be... View full abstract»

• ### Control of a 5DOF Magnetically Levitated Positioning Stage

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):844 - 852
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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A high-precision, magnetically levitated, five degree-of-freedom (5DOF) positioning stage is presented. Four independently controlled iron-cored permanent magnet linear synchronous motors are used to translate the stage and rotate it about the two horizontal axes. Six optical encoders with 10 mum resolution, mounted on linear guides, are used to measure displacements and rotations. A detailed math... View full abstract»

• ### Partial-Energy-Shaping Control for Orbital Stabilization of High-Frequency Oscillations of the Furuta Pendulum

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):853 - 858
Cited by:  Papers (22)
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We consider the problem of creating oscillations of the Furuta pendulum around the open-loop unstable equilibrium. We start with a control transformation shaping the energy of the passive link. Then, a dissipativity-based controller is designed to create oscillations, neglecting the possibility of unbounded motion of the directly actuated link. After that, an auxiliary linear feedback action is ad... View full abstract»

• ### Design of a Packet-Based Control Framework for Networked Control Systems

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):859 - 865
Cited by:  Papers (87)
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A packet-based control framework is proposed for networked control systems (NCSs). This framework takes advantage of the characteristic of the packet-based transmission in a networked control environment, which enables a sequence of control signals to be sent over the network simultaneously, thus making it possible to actively compensate for the communication constraints in NCSs. Under this contro... View full abstract»

• ### An Optimal Control Method Based on the Energy Flow Equation

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):866 - 875
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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In this brief, a new optimal control method based on the energy equation of the controlled system is presented. The method proposed here defines a criteria function as the combination of the energy flow equation and the control-performance function, unlike the way the classical optimal control theory using it to define the performance measures. In this approach, the ideal characteristics of a phys... View full abstract»

• ### Nonlinear Tracking Control of 3-D Overhead Cranes Against the Initial Swing Angle and the Variation of Payload Weight

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):876 - 883
Cited by:  Papers (53)
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In this brief, we propose a nonlinear tracking control method of 3-D overhead crane systems which works well even in the presence of the initial swing angle and the variation of payload weight. Besides the practical importance of the overhead cranes, this study is also theoretically interesting because four variables (trolley and girder positions, two swing angles) should be controlled using two c... View full abstract»

• ### Singularity Avoidance of Control Moment Gyros by Predicted Singularity Robustness: Ground Experiment

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):884 - 891
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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A steering law design for single gimbal control moment gyros (CMGs) for spacecraft attitude control is addressed. The novel approach for the new steering law has a close relevance to the well-known singularity robustness method combined with the null motion approach. The proposed predicted singularity robustness (PSR) approach ultimately leads to an optimized solution of gimbal rates with performa... View full abstract»

• ### Global Stability of a Saturated Nonlinear PID Controller for Robot Manipulators

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):892 - 899
Cited by:  Papers (20)
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This paper presents a simple and global stable nonlinear proportional-integral-derivative (N-PID) controller incorporated with a new saturated function design. The new class of saturated function is derived from quasi-natural potential function to shape the position and velocity errors. The coordinate of the saturated function is either in joint space or in Cartesian space, and the function is adj... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Control of Uncertain Hamiltonian Multi-Input Multi-Output Systems: With Application to Spacecraft Control

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):900 - 906
Cited by:  Papers (38)
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A novel adaptive tracking control law for nonlinear Hamiltonian multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) systems with uncertain parameters in the actuator modeling as well as the inertia and/or the Coriolis and centrifugal terms is developed. The physical properties of the Hamiltonian systems are effectively used in the control design and the stability analysis. The number of the parameter estimates is sig... View full abstract»

• ### Modeling and Optimization Analysis of a Single-Flagellum Micro-Structure Through the Method of Regularized Stokeslets

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):907 - 916
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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Bacteria such as Rhodobacter sphaeroides use a single flagellum for propulsion and change of orientation. These types of simple organisms have inspired microrobotic designs with potential applications in medicine, which motivates this work. In this paper, an elastic model for a single-flagellum micro-structure is presented and followed by an analysis of the system based on optimizati... View full abstract»

• ### Design of Minimal and Tolerant Sensor Networks for Observability of Vehicle Active Suspension

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):917 - 925
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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Due to the importance of sensors in allowing observability and in increasing redundancy and reliability, instrumentation is a crucial phase during plant design. In this brief, it is shown how to design a minimal and a tolerant sensor networks for the observability of vehicle active suspension. The system consists of a full vehicle model and actuator dynamics. Due to its complexity, the system is d... View full abstract»

• ### Design of Ternary Signals for MIMO Identification in the Presence of Noise and Nonlinear Distortion

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):926 - 933
Cited by:  Papers (23)
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A new approach to designing sets of ternary periodic signals with different periods for multi-input multi-output system identification is described. The signals are pseudo-random signals with uniform nonzero harmonics, generated from Galois field GF(q), where q is a prime or a power of a prime. The signals are designed to be uncorrelated, so that effects of different inputs can be ea... View full abstract»

• ### Global Trajectory Tracking Through Static Feedback for Robot Manipulators With Bounded Inputs

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):934 - 944
Cited by:  Papers (46)
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In this work, two globally stabilizing bounded control schemes for the tracking control of robot manipulators with saturating inputs are proposed. They may be seen as extensions of the so-called PD+ algorithm to the bounded input case. With respect to previous works on the topic, the proposed approaches give a global solution to the problem through static feedback. Moreover, they are not defined u... View full abstract»

• ### Recursive Identification of Sandwich Systems With Dead Zone and Application

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):945 - 951
Cited by:  Papers (25)
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In this paper, a recursive identification approach for a class of nonlinear systems called sandwich systems with the dead zone is proposed. In order to handle the effect of the dead zone, several switch functions are introduced into the model based on the so-called key term separation principle. Hence, the sandwich systems with the dead zone can be transformed into a special model where all the mo... View full abstract»

• ### Modeling and Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics for Freeway Traffic by Using Information From a Mobile Cellular Network

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):952 - 959
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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The high coverage of the territory by cellular networks and the widespread diffusion of mobile terminals aboard vehicles allow one to collect information on the traffic behavior. The problem of selecting a dynamic model to describe the freeway traffic by using the information available from a wireless cellular network is addressed by assuming the distribution of mobile terminals aboard vehicles to... View full abstract»

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