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# IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

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Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology publication information

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s): C2
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• ### Editorial Control Systems Technology: Towards a Systems-of-Systems Perspective?

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):249 - 250
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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• ### 2009 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s): 251
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• ### Ultra-Low Power Control System for Maximal Energy Harvesting From Short Duration Vibrations

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):252 - 266
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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With the advent of ultra-low power sensor packages, there is renewed interest in harvesting vibration energy to power them, thus creating a self sustaining battery-less sensor system. The optimal algorithms previously developed in literature to harvest vibration energy are complex and hence require controllers that consume a significant amount of power. The relatively high power requirement combin... View full abstract»

• ### Fast Model Predictive Control Using Online Optimization

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):267 - 278
Cited by:  Papers (398)  |  Patents (1)
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A widely recognized shortcoming of model predictive control (MPC) is that it can usually only be used in applications with slow dynamics, where the sample time is measured in seconds or minutes. A well-known technique for implementing fast MPC is to compute the entire control law offline, in which case the online controller can be implemented as a lookup table. This method works well for systems w... View full abstract»

• ### High Altitude Wind Energy Generation Using Controlled Power Kites

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):279 - 293
Cited by:  Papers (78)  |  Patents (2)
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This paper presents simulation and experimental results regarding a new class of wind energy generators, denoted as KiteGen, which employ power kites to capture high altitude wind power. A realistic kite model, which includes the kite aerodynamic characteristics and the effects of line weight and drag forces, is used to describe the system dynamics. Nonlinear model predictive control techniques, t... View full abstract»

• ### A Unified Control Scheme for Track Seeking and Following of a Hard Disk Drive Servo System

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):294 - 306
Cited by:  Papers (20)
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This paper proposes a new nonlinear time-varying unified control scheme (UCS) for track-seeking and track-following in hard disk drives (HDDs) so as to avoid problem of mode switching. The proposed control scheme utilizes the concept of the conventional composite nonlinear feedback (CNF) scheme to achieve fast and smooth seeking. In order to be advantageous over the conventional CNF control, the U... View full abstract»

• ### On the Force Control of Kinematically Defective Manipulators Interacting With an Unknown Environment

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):307 - 322
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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In this paper, the problem of force feedback control of kinematically defective manipulators (KDMs) is considered. KDMs are robot manipulators that have fewer joints than the dimension of the space in which their end-effector moves. It is well known that controlling the end-effector velocity of an n-joint KDM can be easily solved by appropriately selecting n components of the ... View full abstract»

• ### Formal Framework for Nonlinear Control of PWM AC/DC Boost Rectifiers—Controller Design and Average Performance Analysis

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):323 - 335
Cited by:  Papers (14)
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We are considering the problem of controlling filtered AC/DC switched power converters of the boost type. The control objectives are twofold: 1) guaranteeing a regulated voltage for the supplied load and 2) enforcing power factor correction (PFC) with respect to the main supply network. The considered problem is dealt with using a double-loop controller developed on the basis of the system nonline... View full abstract»

• ### Combined $H _{infty}$-Feedback Control and Iterative Learning Control Design With Application to Nanopositioning Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):336 - 351
Cited by:  Papers (32)
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This paper examines a coordinated feedback and feedforward control design strategy for precision motion control (PMC) systems. It is assumed that the primary exogenous signals are repeated; including disturbances and references. Therefore, an iterative learning control (ILC) feedforward strategy can be used. The introduction of additional non-repeating exogenous signals, including disturbances, no... View full abstract»

• ### Feedback Control Structures, Embedded Residual Signals, and Feedback Control Schemes With an Integrated Residual Access

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):352 - 367
Cited by:  Papers (24)
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Driven by the increasing needs for the integration of model-based fault diagnosis into the electronic control units (ECUs) with limited computation capacity and motivated by the recent study on the fault tolerant controller architecture, we investigate feedback controller structures aiming at accessing the residuals embedded in the control loops. For this purpose, we first develop an observer-base... View full abstract»

• ### Saturation-Induced Instability and Its Avoidance in Adaptive Control of Hard Disk Drives

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):368 - 382
Cited by:  Papers (38)
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This paper presents an investigation of the design and implementation of minimum-variance adaptive controllers for computer hard disk drive (HDD) read-write track following. A common characteristic of minimum-variance controllers, adaptive or not, is that they rely on prediction filters with large high- frequency gains to predict broadband disturbances, and this often produces control-signal satur... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Cooperative Attitude Synchronization and Tracking for Multiple Rigid Bodies

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):383 - 392
Cited by:  Papers (139)
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In this paper, distributed cooperative attitude synchronization and tracking problems are considered for multiple rigid bodies with attitudes represented by modified rodriguez parameters. Two distributed control laws are proposed and analyzed. The first control law applies a passivity approach for distributed attitude synchronization. The control law guarantees attitude synchronization without the... View full abstract»

• ### Control Relevant Blind Identification of Disturbances With Application to a Multivariable Active Vibration Isolation Platform

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):393 - 404
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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This paper deals with the identification of root causes of disturbances in multivariable systems. It is shown that this boils down to a blind identification problem that can be solved, under additional assumptions, within certain indeterminacies. Using the results from identification, it is illustrated how sources can be physically interpreted and the location of the sources can be recovered. Also... View full abstract»

• ### Modeling and Control of Thermal Printing

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):405 - 413
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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In this paper, we present the development of an optimal controller for thermal printheads. A first-order linear system and a nonlinear output mapping with stochastic noise is proposed as a model of the printing dynamics. The model parameters are identified and an optimal control problem is formulated to determine the printhead input. The control algorithm is successfully tested on a standard therm... View full abstract»

• ### Coordination of Operations by Relation Extraction for Manufacturing Cell Controllers

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):414 - 429
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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A method for generation of the control function for flexible manufacturing cells is presented in this paper. The control function is separated from the rest of the programmable logic control (PLC) program, and partitioned into a high-level part handling the operation sequence and a low-level part defining the execution process of the operations. The program structure enables high-level supervisor ... View full abstract»

• ### Fault Detection and Isolation of Induction Motors Using Recurrent Neural Networks and Dynamic Bayesian Modeling

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):430 - 437
Cited by:  Papers (31)
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Dynamic neural models provide an attractive means of fault detection and isolation in industrial process. One approach is to create a neural model to emulate normal system behavior and additional models to emulate various fault conditions. The neural models are then placed in parallel with the system to be monitored, and fault detection is achieved by comparing the outputs of the neural models wit... View full abstract»

• ### Development of High Performance Aircraft Bleed Air Temperature Control System With Reduced Ram Air Usage

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):438 - 445
Cited by:  Papers (6)  |  Patents (1)
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Conventional aircraft engine bleed air temperature regulation system is inefficient due to unnecessary ram air usage in cooling the bleed air, which in turn causes unnecessary drag and fuel consumption. This paper proposes an aircraft bleed air temperature control system, aiming at minimizing the ram air usage to reduce drag and fuel consumption while maintaining fast temperature control response.... View full abstract»

• ### A Reduced-Order Nonlinear Clutch Pressure Observer for Automatic Transmission

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):446 - 453
Cited by:  Papers (26)
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For a novel type of automatic transmissions adopting clutch-to-clutch shift control technology with electro-hydraulic actuators, a clutch pressure observer method based on input-to-state stability (ISS) is proposed. Model uncertainties including steady state error and unmodelled dynamics are considered as additional disturbance inputs and the observer is designed in order that the error dynamics i... View full abstract»

• ### An Adaptive Robust Nonlinear Motion Controller Combined With Disturbance Observer

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):454 - 462
Cited by:  Papers (23)
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Parameter adaptation and disturbance observer (DOB) have been considered as two contrastively different approaches to handle uncertainties in motion control problems. The purpose of this brief is to merge both techniques into one control design with theoretically guaranteed performance. It is shown that the DOB compensates low-passed components of the lumped uncertainties without the necessity of ... View full abstract»

• ### Nonlinear Sampled-Data Stabilization of Dynamically Positioned Ships

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):463 - 468
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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In this brief, we consider the nonlinear sampled-data stabilization of dynamically positioned ships. Using the nonlinear sampled-data control theory developed by Nesic and the integrator backstepping technique for the Euler approximate model, we design semiglobally practically asymptotically (SPA) stabilizing controllers. We design both state feedback and output feedback controllers. We give a num... View full abstract»

• ### Decentralized Spacing Control of a String of Multiple Vehicles Over Lossy Datalinks

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):469 - 473
Cited by:  Papers (14)
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In spacing control of multiple vehicles as in aircraft, spacecraft formation flying and highway vehicle platooning, previous research has shown that the lead vehicle state is required by all following vehicles in order to achieve leader-to-formation stability. Following vehicles can estimate the lead vehicle's state during losses by assuming that the lead vehicle maintains its speed. In this paper... View full abstract»

• ### ODE-Based Modelling and Calibration of Temperatures in Steelmaking Ladles

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):474 - 479
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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This brief considers modelling of steel and wall temperatures in steelmaking ladles used as liquid steel transportation vessels. Two measurement campaigns in order to collect data for model calibration and validation were conducted at the facilities of a Swedish stainless steel manufacturer. The process data were utilized in order to calibrate and validate an ordinary differential equation (ODE) m... View full abstract»

• ### Modeling and Control of a Partial Body Weight Support System: An Output Regulation Approach

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):480 - 490
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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This brief reports on the modeling, control design, and implementation, and experimental results of a partial body weight support (PBWS) system, which facilitates walking and the relearning process for people suffering from gait impairment as a result of a neurological injury such as strokes. This apparatus is equipped with a load cell which constantly monitors the provided support force, and a li... View full abstract»

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