# IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

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Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology publication information

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s): C2
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• ### Robust Control of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Ultracapacitor Hybrid System

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1 - 10
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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Mitigating fuel starvation and improving load-following capability of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) are conflicting control objectives. In this paper, we address this issue using a hybrid SOFC ultracapacitor configuration. Fuel starvation is prevented by regulating the fuel cell current using a steady-state invariant relationship involving fuel utilization, fuel flow, and current. Two comprehensiv... View full abstract»

• ### Nonlinear Controller Designs for Thermal Management in PCR Amplification

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):11 - 30
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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We have developed a theoretical model for a cascade two-stage Peltier device based on the electrothermal dynamics of Peltier modules and the heat balance equations of the interfacing materials. Both open- and closed-loop data are used to tune the scaling factors of the nonlinear model. The effectiveness of the model is validated over a large temperature range with the experimental data from a ther... View full abstract»

• ### Observer-Based Intensity-Feedback Control for Laser Beam Pointing and Tracking

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):31 - 47
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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This paper presents an investigation of the control problem of aiming a laser beam under dynamic disturbances, using light intensity for feedback only. The idea is to steer the beam with a biaxial microelectromechanical mirror, which is driven by a control signal generated by processing the beam intensity sensed by a single photodiode. Since the pointing location of the beam is assumed to be unava... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Adaptive Boundary Control of a Vibrating String Under Unknown Time-Varying Disturbance

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):48 - 58
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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In this paper, robust adaptive boundary control is developed for a class of flexible string-type systems under unknown time-varying disturbance. The dynamics of the string system is represented by a nonhomogeneous hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE) and two ordinary differential equations. Boundary control is proposed at the right boundary of the string based on the original distributed... View full abstract»

• ### Fast Linear Model Predictive Control Via Custom Integrated Circuit Architecture

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):59 - 71
Cited by:  Papers (24)
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This paper addresses the implementation of linear model predictive control (MPC) at millisecond range, or faster, sampling rates. This is achieved by designing a custom integrated circuit architecture that is specifically targeted to the MPC problem. As opposed to the more usual approach using a generic serial architecture processor, the design here is implemented using a field-programmable gate a... View full abstract»

• ### Design and Robustness Analysis of Discrete Observers for Diesel Engine In-Cylinder Oxygen Mass Fraction Cycle-by-Cycle Estimation

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):72 - 83
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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This paper presents three discrete observer designs for cycle-by-cycle estimation of the in-cylinder oxygen mass fraction at the intake valve closing (IVC) on diesel engines equipped with exhaust gas recirculation systems. These observers can provide critical in-cylinder condition oxygen fraction information that is useful for control of combustion, in particular advanced combustion modes on a cyc... View full abstract»

• ### Model Predictive Idle Speed Control: Design, Analysis, and Experimental Evaluation

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):84 - 97
Cited by:  Papers (36)
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Idle speed control is a landmark application of feedback control in automotive vehicles that continues to be of significant interest to automotive industry practitioners, since improved idle performance and robustness translate into better fuel economy, emissions and drivability. In this paper, we develop a model predictive control (MPC) strategy for regulating the engine speed to the idle speed s... View full abstract»

• ### Design and Control of Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations for Testing Non-Return-Valve Vibrations in Air Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):98 - 110
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Non-return-valves are commonly used across the range of industries for prevention of reverse flow conditions where they often exhibit premature failure due to self-sustained oscillations that are a result of fluid structure interactions. This paper details the design of a proof of concept hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) simulator and its controller for simulating fluid-structure interactions of a non-... View full abstract»

• ### Path Following Control of Planar Snake Robots Using a Cascaded Approach

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):111 - 126
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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This paper considers path following control of snake robots along straight paths. Under the assumption that the forward velocity of the snake robot is nonzero and positive, we prove that the proposed path following controller K-exponentially stabilizes a snake robot to any desired straight path. The performance of the path following controller is investigated through simulations and through... View full abstract»

• ### High-Frequency Linear Compressor and Lateral Position Regulation

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):127 - 138
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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The mathematical model for the magnetically levitated linear compressor (MLLC), which consists of a magnetic linear actuator (MLA), a pair of active magnetic bearings (AMBs), and a drive rod, is developed. To prevent any potential wear or collision by the drive rod against conventional bearings and certainly reduce noise, the AMB pair is employed to regulate the lateral position deviation of the d... View full abstract»

• ### On the State-Space Realization of LPV Input-Output Models: Practical Approaches

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):139 - 153
Cited by:  Papers (23)
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A common problem in the context of linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems is how input-output (IO) models can be efficiently realized in terms of state-space (SS) representations. The problem originates from the fact that in the LPV literature discrete-time identification and modeling of LPV systems is often accomplished via IO model structures. However, to utilize these LPV-IO models for control ... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Nonlinear Controls of Model-Scale Helicopters Under Lateral and Vertical Wind Gusts

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):154 - 163
Cited by:  Papers (35)
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A helicopter maneuvers naturally in an environment where the execution of the task can easily be affected by atmospheric turbulence, which leads to variations of its model parameters. This paper discusses the nature of the disturbances acting on the helicopter and proposes an approach to counter the effects. The disturbance consists of vertical and lateral wind gusts. A 7-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) ... View full abstract»

• ### Model Predictive Control for a Full Bridge DC/DC Converter

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):164 - 172
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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This paper investigates the implementation of both linear model predictive control (LMPC) and nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) to a full bridge dc/dc converter under starting, overload, and load step change conditions. The control objective is to regulate the output voltage without violating the peak current constraint. The integrated perturbation analysis and sequential quadratic program... View full abstract»

• ### Fixed-Order $H_{infty}$ Tension Control in the Unwinding Section of a Web Handling System Using a Pendulum Dancer

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):173 - 180
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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Flexible materials such as textiles, papers, polymers, and metals are transported on rollers during their processing. Maintaining web tension in the entire processing line under changing web speed is a key factor in achieving good final product quality. Many industrial applications use dancer position feedback to indirectly regulate tension. Although widely used in the industry, pendulum dancers (... View full abstract»

• ### Nonlinear Identification of a Minimal Neuromuscular Blockade Model in Anesthesia

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):181 - 188
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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This brief presents new modeling and identification strategies to address many difficulties in the identification of anesthesia dynamics. The most commonly used models for the effect of muscle relaxants during general anesthesia comprise a high number (greater than eight) of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters. The main issue concerning the neuromuscular blockade system identification i... View full abstract»

• ### A Stochastic Reachability Approach to Portfolio Construction in Finance Industry

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):189 - 195
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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The approach to portfolio construction proposed in this paper is based on recent results on stochastic reachability. It is assumed that investors' preferences are expressed in terms of target sets to be reached at each time period over a specified finite horizon. A portfolio is defined optimal if it maximizes the probability of its value to belong to the target sets. A case study drawn from the US... View full abstract»

• ### A Model-Free ON–OFF Iterative Adaptive Controller Based on Stochastic Approximation

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):196 - 204
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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A model-free on-off iterative adaptive controller is described for application to microscale servo systems performing repeated motions under extremely strict power constraints. The approach is motivated by the needs of piezoelectric actuators in autonomous microrobots, where power consumption in analog circuitry and/or for position sensing may be much larger than that of the actuators themselves. ... View full abstract»

• ### Design of a Fixed-Order Controller for the Track-Following Control of Optical Disc Drives

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):205 - 213
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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In this paper, a systematic method for designing a fixed-order controller for the track-following control of optical disc drives is proposed. The design specifications are given in the frequency domain and are expressed as frequency-domain inequalities. On the basis of the generalized Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma, each frequency-domain inequality is converted into linear matrix inequalities of th... View full abstract»

• ### NPID and Adaptive Approximation Control of Motion Systems With Friction

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):214 - 222
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This paper proposes a scheme for precise position control of a mechatronic servo system based on linear synchronous motors. The control is based on gain-scheduled proportional integral derivatives (PIDs) (known as NPID in related literature) and adaptive approximation of uncertainties. NPID and adaptive approximation are combined in a constructive way to inherit advantages and overcome limitations... View full abstract»

• ### Damping Control in Power Systems Under Constrained Communication Bandwidth: A Predictor Corrector Strategy

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):223 - 231
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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Damping electromechanical oscillations in power systems using feedback signals from remote sensors is likely to be affected by occasional low bandwidth availability due to increasing use of shared communication in future. In this paper, a predictor corrector (PC) strategy is applied to deal with situations of low-feedback data rate (bandwidth), where conventional feedback (CF) would suffer. Knowle... View full abstract»

• ### Real-Time Power Management of Integrated Power Systems in All Electric Ships Leveraging Multi Time Scale Property

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):232 - 240
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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All-electric ships (AES), enabled by integrated power systems (IPS), have been pursued for both commercial and military applications to meet the increasing ship-board power demand and environmental sustainability initiatives. They necessitate real-time power management (PM) for dynamic reconfiguration to support system critical operations in the event of dynamic load change or IPS component failur... View full abstract»

• ### A Motion Planning-Based Adaptive Control Method for an Underactuated Crane System

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):241 - 248
Cited by:  Papers (35)
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This brief proposes a motion planning-based adaptive control strategy for an underactuated overhead crane system. To improve the transportation efficiency and enhance the safety of the crane system, the trolley is required to reach the desired position fast enough, while the swing of the payload needs to be within an acceptable domain. To achieve these objectives, a novel two-step design strategy ... View full abstract»

• ### Reactive Path Planning for 3-D Autonomous Vehicles

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):249 - 256
Cited by:  Papers (4)  |  Patents (2)
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This brief deals with the problem of path planning for 3-D vehicles. The problem is simplified by resolving the workspace into horizontal and vertical planes. The flight path angle and the heading angle are linear functions of the visibility line angles in the vertical and horizontal planes, respectively. Other terms for the deviation and heading regulation are added to the navigation law. The nav... View full abstract»

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