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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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• ### New Experimental Results on the Compensation of Static Friction in Passive Joints of Robotic Manipulators

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1005 - 1010
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The progress made in friction compensation in robotics was concentrated on friction losses in the actuated joints. The newly emerging parallel manipulators however, possess considerable number of passive joints. This paper discusses the influence of passive joint friction (PJF) in robot's dynamics and its impact on control performance. It gives a basic framework on the modeling, the detection of s... View full abstract»

• ### Estimating Regions of Asymptotic Stability of Power Electronics Systems Using Genetic Algorithms

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1011 - 1022
Cited by:  Papers (26)
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Electric power distribution systems composed of power electronics converters are susceptible to instabilities under certain conditions. Small-signal impedance approaches to stability analysis are incapable of predicting large-signal stability properties. Herein, a practical and scalable genetic algorithm based procedure for the estimation of regions of asymptotic stability of power electronics sys... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Vibration Cancellation for Tire-Road Friction Coefficient Estimation on Winter Maintenance Vehicles

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1023 - 1032
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This paper focuses on the development and experimental evaluation of a novel adaptive feedforward vibration cancellation based friction estimation system. The friction estimation utilizes a small instrumented redundant wheel on the vehicle. Unlike other systems previously documented in literature, the developed system can provide a continuous measurement of the friction coefficient under all vehic... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Noncooperative $N$-Person Games With Unknown General Quadratic Objectives

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1033 - 1043
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Motivated by the problems of unknown objectives in strategic bidding in the restructured electricity power markets where in practice, not all participants have full access to competitors' information, this paper investigates a class of noncooperative N-person games with unknown objectives with linear and cross terms in controls. We first formulate and explicitly derive the Nash equilibrium solutio... View full abstract»

• ### Trends in the Stability Properties of CLSS Controllers: A Root-Locus Analysis

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1044 - 1056
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The control of flexible systems includes a variety of control strategies that are implemented via numerous architectures (open-loop control, feedback loops, etc.). One useful form of vibration control is input shaping. Traditionally, input shaping is an open-loop control strategy utilizing the destructive interference of vibration waves to eliminate oscillations. However, some research has advance... View full abstract»

• ### Packet-Based Deadband Control for Internet-Based Networked Control Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1057 - 1067
Cited by:  Papers (37)
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A packet-based deadband control approach is proposed for networked control systems (NCSs). Compared with previously reported packet-based control approaches to NCSs, the approach proposed in this paper takes full advantage of the packet-based data transmission in NCSs, and thus considerably reduces the use of the communication resources in NCSs whilst maintaining the system performance at a satisf... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Motion/Force Control of Mobile Under-Actuated Manipulators With Dynamics Uncertainties by Dynamic Coupling and Output Feedback

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1068 - 1079
Cited by:  Papers (34)
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In this paper, adaptive motion/force control by dynamic coupling and output feedback is considered for nonholonomic mobile manipulators with an under-actuated joint, in the presence of parametric and functional uncertainties. It is obvious that the constraints of the system consist of kinematic constraints for the mobile platform and dynamic constraints for the under-actuated joint. Through using ... View full abstract»

• ### Boundary Control of a Coupled Nonlinear Flexible Marine Riser

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1080 - 1091
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In this paper, boundary control for a coupled nonlinear flexible marine riser with two actuators in transverse and longitudinal directions is developed to reduce the riser's vibrations. The dynamic behavior of the flexible riser is represented by a distributed parameter system with partial differential equations (PDEs) and the control is applied at the top boundary of the riser based on Lyapunov's... View full abstract»

• ### An Inferential Model-Based Predictive Control Scheme for Optimizing the Operation of Boilers in Building Space-Heating Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1092 - 1102
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An inferential model-based predictive control scheme is described that can optimize the control of boilers in multi-zone heating systems in order to save energy and to improve thermal comfort. The controller has only three inputs: a measurement of the outside air temperature, an estimate of the total solar radiation falling on the exterior of the building, and a measurement of the temperature of t... View full abstract»

• ### A Decentralized Fault-Tolerant Control System for Accommodation of Failures in Higher-Order Flight Control Actuators

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1103 - 1115
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In this paper, an effective integrated failure detection and identification (FDI) and fault-tolerant control (FTC) technique is developed for a class of nonlinear systems actuated by actuators that may undergo several different types of failures. Assuming that the actuator dynamics are fast, a baseline controller is designed and, using the singular perturbation arguments, shown to achieve the cont... View full abstract»

• ### Nonlinear Multivariable Power Plant Coordinate Control by Constrained Predictive Scheme

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1116 - 1125
Cited by:  Papers (48)
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A coordinated control strategy is often used to ensure a thermal power plant to have a higher rate of load change, but without violating the thermal constraints. Although model predictive control has been widely used for controlling power plant, handling input constraints is a major problem especially as these plants are nonlinear. Two alternative methods of exploiting the nonlinear predictive con... View full abstract»

• ### Comparison of Hybrid Control Techniques for Buck and Boost DC-DC Converters

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1126 - 1145
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Five recent techniques from hybrid and optimal control are evaluated on two power electronics benchmark problems. The benchmarks involve a number of practically interesting operating scenarios for fixed-frequency synchronous dc-dc converters. The specifications are defined such that good performance can only be obtained if the switched and nonlinear nature of the problem is accounted for during th... View full abstract»

• ### Embedded Optimization for Input Shaping

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1146 - 1154
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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Traditional input shaping filters are linear mappings between reference input and system input. These filters are often unnecessarily conservative with respect to input and output bounds if multiple references with different amplitudes are applied. This conservatism is due to its offline design and linear mapping. This paper presents an online input prefilter design approach to overcome this conse... View full abstract»

• ### Team Consensus for a Network of Unmanned Vehicles in Presence of Actuator Faults

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1155 - 1161
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In this paper, performance analysis of a team of unmanned vehicles (agents) that are subject to actuator faults is investigated. The team goal is to accomplish a cohesive motion in a modified leader-follower architecture by using a semi-decentralized optimal control strategy. The controller, which is recently proposed by the authors, is designed based on minimization of individual cost functions b... View full abstract»

• ### Application of a Transition Graph-Based Predictive Algorithm to a Solar Air Conditioning Plant

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1162 - 1171
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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This brief presents the development of a transition graph-based predictive algorithm and its application to a solar air conditioning plant. The process considered is a hybrid system of variable configuration subject to disturbances in its main energy source, namely solar radiation. The predictive algorithm switches between the operating modes of the plant on the basis of minimizing the performance... View full abstract»

• ### Reducing Cross-Coupling in a Compliant XY Nanopositioner for Fast and Accurate Raster Scanning

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1172 - 1179
Cited by:  Papers (69)
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A compliant XY nanopositioner is presented in this brief. The device is designed to have a very low cross-coupling between the X- and Y-axis. Despite this, during high-speed raster scans, the cross-coupling effect can not be ignored. In this brief, a H controller is designed and implemented to minimize the X-to- <;i>Y<;/i> cross-coupling o... View full abstract»

• ### Estimation and Control Under Information Constraints for LAAS Helicopter Benchmark

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1180 - 1187
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A scheme for state estimation and control under information constraints is implemented for “LAAS Helicopter benchmark”. Parameter estimates of the “Helicopter” pitch dynamics model are obtained by means of the real-time identification algorithm. The hybrid continuous-discrete observation procedure for transmission of the measured data over the limited-band communication... View full abstract»

• ### An Online Simplified Rotor Resistance Estimator for Induction Motors

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1188 - 1194
Cited by:  Papers (34)
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This brief presents an adaptive variable structure identifier that provides finite time convergent estimate of the induction motor rotor resistance under feasible persistent of excitation condition. The proposed rotor resistance scheme is based on the standard dynamic model of induction motor expressed in a fixed reference frame attached to the stator. The available variables are the rotor speed, ... View full abstract»

• ### Act-and-Wait and Intermittent Control: Some Comments

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1195 - 1198
Cited by:  Papers (17)
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The act-and-wait control introduced by Insperger is shown to be related to a form of intermittent control. Theoretical and practical similarities and differences between the two methods are explored. View full abstract»

• ### A Simple Adaptive Control Approach for Trajectory Tracking of Electrically Driven Nonholonomic Mobile Robots

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1199 - 1206
Cited by:  Papers (94)
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Almost all existing controllers for nonholonomic mobile robots are designed without considering the actuator dynamics. This is because the presence of the actuator dynamics increases the complexity of the system dynamics, and makes difficult the design of the controller. In this paper, we propose a simple adaptive control approach for path tracking of uncertain nonholonomic mobile robots incorpora... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Model-Based Online Fault Detection for Mating Process of Electric Connectors in Robotic Wiring Harness Assembly Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1207 - 1215
Cited by:  Papers (17)
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Mating a pair of electric connectors is one of the most important steps in a robotic wiring harness assembly system, which can be modeled by static piecewise affine (PWA) systems. To design a fault detection system for this application, a set-membership approach for static PWA systems is proposed, in which parallelotopic approximation of feasible parameter sets is adopted. An online algorithm is o... View full abstract»

• ### Gain Scheduled Control of an Air Conditioning System Using the Youla Parameterization

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1216 - 1225
Cited by:  Papers (25)
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Vapor compression systems form the basis for the majority of air conditioning and refrigeration systems. A primary control challenge addressed here is the coupled nonlinear multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) dynamics associated with the multiphase heat and mass transfer in the primary refrigerant loop. This paper develops a MIMO gain scheduled control strategy to regulate system efficiency whil... View full abstract»

• ### Guaranteed Cost Control for Networked Control Systems Based on an Improved Predictive Control Method

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1226 - 1232
Cited by:  Papers (38)
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This brief deals with the problem of guaranteed cost control for a class of uncertain networked control systems with time-varying delay. An improved predictive controller design strategy is proposed to compensate for the delay and data dropout in both the forward and backward channels to achieve the desired control performance. The varying controller gains which are designed to vary with delays ca... View full abstract»

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