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Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology publication information

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): C2
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Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):245 - 246
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• 2010 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): 247
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• Optimal Control of an Under-Actuated System for Landing With Desired Postures

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):248 - 255
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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Control over landing posture can effectively prevent structural damage when a portable device is accidentally dropped. Given size and cost constraints, the number of actuators should be limited. This paper presents an optimal posture control method that allows an under-actuated system to land with the desired posture. A simplified model of a portable computer/telephone is considered, comprising tw... View full abstract»

• Robust Output Feedback Control of a Class of Nonlinear Systems Using a Disturbance Observer

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):256 - 268
Cited by:  Papers (28)
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This paper considers the output-tracking control problem of feedback linearizable nonlinear systems in the presence of external disturbances and modeling errors. A robust output feedback nonlinear controller is designed to achieve excellent output-tracking performance. By exploiting the cascade features of backstepping design, a simple disturbance observer (DOB) is proposed to suppress the effects... View full abstract»

• A Decentralized Markovian Jump ${cal H}_{infty}$ Control Routing Strategy for Mobile Multi-Agent Networked Systems

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):269 - 283
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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This paper presents a Markovian jump linear (MJL) system framework for developing routing algorithms in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) that encounter changes in the number of nodes and/or the number of destinations. A unified H∞ control strategy is proposed by representing the dynamically changing destination nodes as singular switching control systems. A decentralized routing s... View full abstract»

• Two-Degree-of-Freedom Active Vibration Control of a Prototyped “Smart” Rotor

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):284 - 296
Cited by:  Papers (33)
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This paper studies the load reduction potential of a prototyped “smart” rotor. This is, a rotor where the blades are equipped with a number of control devices that locally change the lift profile on the blade, combined with appropriate sensors and controllers. Experimental models, using dedicated system identification techniques, are developed of a scaled rotating two-bladed “... View full abstract»

• Model Reduction of Turbocharged (TC) Spark Ignition (SI) Engines

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):297 - 310
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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This paper proposes a new procedure to reduce the order of control oriented turbocharged (TC) spark ignition (SI) engine models. The starting point of this work is a higher dimensional, fully validated model defined which is not appropriate for control design. The model reduction technique is based on the identification of time scale separation within the dynamics of various engine state variables... View full abstract»

• Neuroadaptive Output Feedback Control for Automated Anesthesia With Noisy EEG Measurements

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):311 - 326
Cited by:  Papers (14)
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Critical care patients, whether undergoing surgery or recovering in intensive care units, require drug administration to regulate physiological variables such as blood pressure, cardiac output, heart rate, and degree of consciousness. The rate of infusion of each administered drug is critical, requiring constant monitoring and frequent adjustments. Nonnegative and compartmental models provide a br... View full abstract»

• Performance Limitations of Non-Laminated Magnetic Suspension Systems

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):327 - 336
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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Limitations on the closed-loop performance of magnetic suspension systems employing electromagnetic actuators that are not constructed from laminations are examined. Eddy currents induced within the iron by time-varying magnetic fields are shown to have a strong effect on the system dynamics and hence the achievable performance. To obtain the needed relations, the theory of performance limitations... View full abstract»

• Switched Control for Pressure Regulation and Kick Attenuation in a Managed Pressure Drilling System

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):337 - 350
Cited by:  Papers (32)
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This paper presents a switched control scheme for regulation of the annular pressure in a well during drilling. The main feature is automatic kick attenuation while drilling reservoir sections. A simple mathematical model is presented that captures the dominant phenomena of the drilling system and forms the basis for observer and control design. A switched pressure control algorithm for feedback c... View full abstract»

• Adaptive Neural Network Control of Hard Disk Drives With Hysteresis Friction Nonlinearity

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):351 - 358
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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In this brief, an adaptive neural network (NN) friction compensator is presented for servo control of hard disk drives (HDDs). The existence of the hysteresis friction nonlinearity from pivot bearing, which is represented as the LuGre hysteresis friction model here, increases the position error signal of read-write head and deteriorates the performance of HDD servo systems. To compensate for the e... View full abstract»

• Real-time Discrete Backstepping Neural Control for Induction Motors

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):359 - 366
Cited by:  Papers (17)
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This brief focuses on real-time implementation, as applied to a three-phase induction motor, of results already published in 2007. The proposed controller is based on a high-order neural network, trained online using Kalman filter learning, to approximate a control law designed by the backstepping technique. View full abstract»

• Non-Holonomy in Induction Machine Torque Control

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):367 - 375
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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In this brief, induction machine (IM) torque control is studied as an example of a 3-D non-holonomic integrator including drift terms. By expanding Brockett's controller derived for the driftless systems, a control structure is proposed that provides simultaneous modulation of both the amplitude and the frequency of the sinusoidal stator current vector. Although not explicitly controlled or progra... View full abstract»

• Plasma Vertical Stabilization in the ITER Tokamak via Constrained Static Output Feedback

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):376 - 381
Cited by:  Papers (15)
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The international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER) is the next step toward the realization of electricity-producing fusion power plants. ITER has been designed so as to reach the plasma burning condition, and to operate with high elongated unstable plasmas. However, due to the constraints which affect the machine realization, these open-loop unstable high performance plasmas can be hardly... View full abstract»

• Time-Scale Separation Designs for Performance Recovery of Power Systems With Unknown Parameters and Faults

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):382 - 390
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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In this brief we apply several time-scale separation designs for robust stabilization and performance recovery to multimachine power systems with two commonly encountered classes of uncertainties, namely matched additive uncertainty (e.g., line outage) and input multiplicative uncertainty (e.g., load or generation changes). We illustrate the effectiveness of the designs in eliminating undesired pe... View full abstract»

• Ripple Suppression of BLDC Motors With Finite Driver/Amplifer Bandwidth at High Velocity

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):391 - 397
Cited by:  Papers (6)  |  Patents (1)
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The excitation currents of a brushless dc motor can be preshaped by an electronically controlled commutator based on position feedback so that the motor delivers ripple-free torque and simultaneously minimizes copper losses. However, at high rotor velocity, the commutator issues high frequency control signals which may not be precisely followed by the motor driver/amplifier due to its finite bandw... View full abstract»

• Black and Gray-Box Identification of a Hydraulic Pumping System

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):398 - 406
Cited by:  Papers (14)
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The use of auxiliary information during the identification of nonlinear systems can be handled in different ways and at different levels. In this brief, static information of a 15 kW hydraulic pumping system is used as a priori knowledge in the parameters estimation of polynomial models which are compared to polynomial and neural models obtained by black-box techniques. The aim is to find models w... View full abstract»

• Adaptive Immune System TH1/TH2 Differentiation Mechanism Inspired Perimeter Patrol Control Strategy

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):407 - 415
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This brief investigates a perimeter patrol control problem in which multiple agents travel back and forth defending a border. A decentralized control inspired from the adaptive immune system TH1/TH2 differentiation mechanism has been proposed. The resulting patrol control exhibits robustness under adversarial conditions. This is primarily because the motion period can be arbitrary, which makes it ... View full abstract»

• Finite Frequency $H_{infty }$ Control for Vehicle Active Suspension Systems

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):416 - 422
Cited by:  Papers (143)
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This brief addresses the problem of control for active vehicle suspension systems in finite frequency domain. The performance is used to measure ride comfort so that more general road disturbances can be considered. By using the generalized Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov (KYP) lemma, the norm from the disturbance to the controlled output is decreased in specific frequency band to improve the ride comfort... View full abstract»

• Cooperative Distributed Robust Trajectory Optimization Using Receding Horizon MILP

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):423 - 431
Cited by:  Papers (43)
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Motivated by recent research on cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), this paper introduces a new cooperative distributed trajectory optimization approach for systems with independent dynamics but coupled objectives and hard constraints. The overall goal is to develop a distributed approach that solves small subproblems while minimizing a fleet-level objective. In the new algorithm, vehicle... View full abstract»

• Optimal Tracking Control of Current Profile in Tokamaks

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):432 - 441
Cited by:  Papers (35)
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Setting up a suitable current spatial profile in tokamak plasmas has been demonstrated to be a key condition for one possible advanced scenario with improved confinement and possible steady-state operation. Experiments at the DIII-D tokamak focus on creating the desired current profile during the plasma current ramp-up and early flattop phases with the aim of maintaining this target profile during... View full abstract»

• Output Feedback Tracking of Ships

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):442 - 448
Cited by:  Papers (35)
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In this brief, we consider output feedback tracking of ships with position and orientation measurements only. Ship dynamics are highly nonlinear, and for tracking control, as opposed to dynamic positioning, these nonlinearities have to be taken into account in the control design. We propose an observer-controller scheme which takes into account the complete ship dynamics, including Coriolis and ce... View full abstract»

• Sight Line Rate Estimation in Missile Seeker Using Disturbance Observer-Based Technique

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):449 - 454
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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Filtering of base motion disturbance from the sight line rate is necessary for homing guidance of missiles. The present work proposes using a noninvasive seeker filter based on the disturbance observer concept to extract the target sight line rate signal from the raw signal corrupted with base motion disturbance. It is shown that the disturbance observer-based filter in favorable (nominal) conditi... View full abstract»

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