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Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• Control Design of Electrically Assisted Boosting Systems for Diesel Powertrain Applications

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):769 - 778
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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In this paper, we investigate the control design problem associated with the use of an electrically assisted turbo-charger (TC) for a modern Diesel engine plant. It is shown that the proposed system has the potential of improving the control bandwidth of air charge regulation relative to conventional systems. The improved control authority creates the potential for precise regulation of the fresh ... View full abstract»

• A Coordinating Control Strategy for Autothermal Fuel Reforming Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):779 - 788
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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In this paper, a control-oriented nonlinear model is developed for an autothermal reformer-based fuel process system. By trajectory planning for one of the system states, a coordinating control algorithm is proposed for the three input flow rates to track/regulate the temperature and hydrogen production of the autothermal reformer. Stability analysis is provided to show a local uniformly ultimatel... View full abstract»

• Boundary Observer for Output-Feedback Stabilization of Thermal-Fluid Convection Loop

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):789 - 797
Cited by:  Papers (26)
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In this paper, we consider a 2-D model of thermal fluid convection that exhibits the prototypical Rayleigh-Bernard convective instability. The fluid is enclosed between two cylinders, heated from above, and cooled from below, which makes its motion unstable for a large enough Rayleigh number. We design an stabilizing output feedback boundary control law for a realistic collocated setup, with actua... View full abstract»

• Adaptive Sliding Mode Control With Perturbation Estimation and PID Sliding Surface for Motion Tracking of a Piezo-Driven Micromanipulator

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):798 - 810
Cited by:  Papers (136)
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This paper proposes an improved sliding mode control with perturbation estimation (SMCPE) featuring a PID-type sliding surface and adaptive gains for the motion tracking control of a micromanipulator system with piezoelectric actuation. One advantage of the proposed controller lies in that its implementation only requires the online estimation of perturbation and control gains without acquiring th... View full abstract»

• Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of High Purity Distillation Columns for Cryogenic Air Separation

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):811 - 821
Cited by:  Papers (20)
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High purity distillation columns are critical unit operations in cryogenic air separation plants that supply purified gases to a number of industries. We have developed a nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) strategy based on the assumption of full-state feedback for a prototypical cryogenic distillation column to allow effective operation over a wide range of plant production rates. The cont... View full abstract»

• Adaptive Algorithms for the Rejection of Sinusoidal Disturbances Acting on Unknown Plants

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):822 - 836
Cited by:  Papers (47)
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The rejection of periodic disturbances is a problem frequently encountered in control engineering, and in active noise and vibration control in particular. The paper presents a new adaptive algorithm for situations where the plant is unknown and may be time-varying. The approach consists in obtaining online estimates of the plant frequency response and of the disturbance parameters. The estimates ... View full abstract»

• Torque-Assist Hybrid Electric Powertrain Sizing: From Optimal Control Towards a Sizing Law

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):837 - 849
Cited by:  Papers (43)
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In this study a novel method is proposed with which the optimal hybridization ratio of a torque-assist hybrid electric powertrain can be found with very little computational effort. The objective is to minimize the total CO2 emissions of the vehicle, while maintaining its drivability at a constant level. The starting point is an analysis in which the optimal driving strategy is found fo... View full abstract»

• Analytic Modal Analyses of a Partially Strengthened Timoshenko Beam

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):850 - 858
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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In this paper, the effect of an actuator on the natural frequencies and mode shapes of a cantilever Timoshenko beam is studied. In this regard, the equations of motion of a cantilever Timoshenko beam are considered. In order to incorporate the effect of the actuator in these equations, it is assumed that the beam is comprised of three uniform Timoshenko beams connected to one another at their boun... View full abstract»

• Active Suspension Control With Direct-Drive Tubular Linear Brushless Permanent-Magnet Motor

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):859 - 870
Cited by:  Papers (26)
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Recently, active suspension is gaining popularity in commercial automobiles. To develop the control methodologies for active suspension control, a quarter-car test bed was built employing a direct-drive tubular linear brushless permanent-magnet motor (LBPMM) as a force-generating component. Two accelerometers and a linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) are used in this quarter-car test b... View full abstract»

• Nonlinear Energy-Based Control Method for Aircraft Automatic Landing Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):871 - 884
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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In this paper we present an aircraft automatic landing system using the nonlinear energy-based control method (NEM). This technique is based on aircraft energy management. NEM is based on the passivity-based control technique (PBC) and similar to Total Energy Control Systems (TECS). A physical interpretation of the NEM controller for the system is presented. We demonstrate that NEM provides insigh... View full abstract»

• Adaptive Regulation in Switched Bimodal Systems: An Experimental Evaluation

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):885 - 895
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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This paper presents experimental results on the adaptive exact output regulation in a switched bimodal mechanical system subject to unknown sinusoidal exogenous inputs representing reference or disturbance signals. The adaptive regulator design exploits the Q parameterization of regulators for the switched system, and where the Q parameter is tuned online to yield the desired regulator. The propos... View full abstract»

• Estimation of Tire Slip Angle and Friction Limits Using Steering Torque

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):896 - 907
Cited by:  Papers (58)
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Knowledge of the vehicle's lateral handling limits is important for vehicle control systems which aim to enhance vehicle handling and passenger safety. This paper presents a model-based estimation method that utilizes pneumatic trail information in steering torque to identify a vehicle's lateral handling limits, which are defined by the tire slip angle and peak lateral force limits. This method us... View full abstract»

• Robust Steering Control of Hot Strip Mill

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):908 - 917
Cited by:  Papers (21)
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In this paper, a robust steering control is proposed as a means to guarantee the stability of a hot strip finishing mill and improve its performances. The aim of the rolling process is to obtain a metal strip which is uniform and at the desired thickness. The lateral movement of the strip may reduce the quality of the product and damage the rolls. Hence, this displacement must be limited to improv... View full abstract»

• Compensation of VCM Actuator Pivot Friction Based on an Operator Modeling Method

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):918 - 926
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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The pivot friction of voice-coil-motor (VCM) actuator is measured for a 1.8-in small disk drive with disk rotating and slider flying. The measurement is carried out under the conditions that the actuator is controlled and the head movement amplitude is growing by changing the references. The hysteresis of friction versus head position is then obtained. An operator-based modeling approach is adopte... View full abstract»

• Nonlinear Identification of Laser Welding Process

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):927 - 934
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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It has been well recognized that weld pool geometry plays a critical role in fusion welding process such as laser welding. In this study, the authors establish a standard diode laser welding system and perform a series of experiments to investigate correlations between welding parameters and the weld pool geometry. Custom digital camera for image acquisition and software for image processing are i... View full abstract»

• Data-Driven Feedforward Control for Electroporation Mediated Gene Delivery in Gene Therapy

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):935 - 943
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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This brief proposes a novel data-driven feedforward control mechanism to regulate micro/nanoscale systems subject to insufficient measurements. The theoretical framework integrates data-driven planning and formulates a feedforward controller, which is successfully applied to an electroporation mediated gene delivery problem in gene therapy. Nonlinear dynamics modeling and analysis of the biologica... View full abstract»

• Trajectory Tracking of a 3DOF Laboratory Helicopter Under Input and State Constraints

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):944 - 952
Cited by:  Papers (32)
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This brief deals with the tracking control design of a helicopter laboratory experimental setup. In order to be able to realize highly dynamic flight maneuvers, both input and state constraints have to be systematically accounted for within the control design procedure. The mathematical model being considered constitutes a nonlinear mathematical mechanical system with two control inputs and three ... View full abstract»

• Feedback Linearization Control and Its Application to MIMO Cancer Immunotherapy

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):953 - 961
Cited by:  Papers (17)
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The study proposes a novel feedback linearization and almost disturbance decoupling control of nonlinear multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The goal of cancer immunotherapy is focused on eliciting an immune system response against the tumor. The study investigates a novel feedback linearization control strategy of nonlinear MIMO tumor-immune system. The main contributions of this study... View full abstract»

• Detecting Mismapping in Cross-Directional Control Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):962 - 968
Cited by:  Papers (6)  |  Patents (2)
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Cross-directional (CD) control systems regulate product properties in industrial web processes by manipulating the inputs to arrays of actuators. In many of these processes, the product wanders or undergoes transformations such as stretching that introduce lateral shifts in the location of the actuator responses. The spatial position of the center of the response of each actuator is known as the a... View full abstract»

• Unified ${mathscr H}_infty$ Control to Suppress Vertices of Plant Input and Output Sensitivity Functions

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):969 - 975
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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This note presents a discrete-time H∞ controller to attenuate effects of external disturbances introduced from both plant input and plant output. In this note, two stage control structure is constructed so that state variable dependent conventional controllers and H∞ loop shaping controllers are simultaneously utilized, which is a different approach from previou... View full abstract»

• Automatic Shielding-Shimming Magnetic Field Compensator for Excluded Volume Applications

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):976 - 983
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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We discuss the problem of automatic magnetic field compensation within an excluded volume where the magnetic field cannot be sensed in a direct way. Both magnetic field spatial average (shielding) and first order orthogonal gradients (shimming) are considered. The active shielding-shimming compensator is based on a multiple-input multiple-output controller driving a specifically designed coil-set.... View full abstract»

• Bilateral Teleoperation of Multiple Mobile Agents: Coordinated Motion and Collision Avoidance

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):984 - 992
Cited by:  Papers (73)
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This paper presents theoretical and experimental results on bilateral teleoperation of multiple mobile slave agents coupled to a single master robot. We first design a passifying proportional-derivative (PD) controller to enforce motion tracking and formation control of master and slave vehicles under constant, bounded communication delays. Then, we incorporate avoidance functions to guarantee col... View full abstract»

• EGR-VGT Control and Tuning for Pumping Work Minimization and Emission Control

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):993 - 1003
Cited by:  Papers (42)  |  Patents (4)
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A control structure is proposed and investigated for coordinated control of exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve and variable geometry turbochargers (VGT) position in heavy duty diesel engines. Main control goals are to fulfill the legislated emission levels, to reduce the fuel consumption, and to fulfill safe operation of the turbocharger. These goals are achieved through regulation of normalize... View full abstract»

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