# 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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• ### 2012 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s): 565
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• ### Command Filtered Adaptive Backstepping

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):566 - 580
Cited by:  Papers (71)
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Implementation of adaptive backstepping controllers requires analytic calculation of the partial derivatives of certain stabilizing functions. It is well documented that, as the order of a nonlinear system increases, analytic calculation of these derivatives becomes prohibitive. Therefore, in practice, either alternative control approaches are used or the derivatives are neglected in the implement... View full abstract»

• ### A Stochastic Approach to “Dynamic-Demand” Refrigerator Control

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):581 - 592
Cited by:  Papers (49)
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Dynamic demand management is a very promising research direction for improving power system resilience. This paper considers the problem of managing power consumption by means of “smart” thermostatic control of domestic refrigerators. In this approach, the operating temperature of these appliances and thus their energy consumption, is modified dynamically, within a safe range, in res... View full abstract»

• ### MPC-Based Energy Management of a Power-Split Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):593 - 603
Cited by:  Papers (154)
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A power-split hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) combines the advantages of both series and parallel hybrid vehicle architectures by utilizing a planetary gear set to split and combine the power produced by electric machines and a combustion engine. Because of the different modes of operation, devising a near optimal energy management strategy is quite challenging and essential for these vehicles. To i... View full abstract»

• ### Switched and Symmetric Pursuit/Evasion Games Using Online Model Predictive Control With Application to Autonomous Aircraft

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):604 - 620
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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This paper describes a supervisory controller for pursuit and evasion of two fixed-wing autonomous aircraft. Novel contributions of the work include the real-time use of model-predictive control, specifically nonlinear model predictive tracking control, for predictions of the vehicle under control, as well as predictions for the adversarial aircraft. In addition to this inclusion, the evasive cont... View full abstract»

• ### Feedback Dithering for Decorrelating Quantization Noise and Enhancing SNDR

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):621 - 631
Cited by:  Papers (4)  |  Patents (1)
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This paper presents a novel feedback dithering scheme. The dithering circuit feeds the quantization noise through a resonator and a comparator to produce a binary signal for use as a dither input to a quantizer. The outstanding feature of the feedback binary dither is its capacity to eliminate in-band quantization noise while effectively randomizing quantization patterns and linearizing a quantize... View full abstract»

• ### Flexible Piecewise Function Evaluation Methods Based on Truncated Binary Search Trees and Lattice Representation in Explicit MPC

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):632 - 640
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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Efficient methods for evaluation of piecewise functions defined over convex polyhedral partitions are proposed. As an important application, the explicit model predictive control problem is considered which requires a piecewise affine (PWA) control law to be evaluated online. The widely used binary search tree (BST) method is modified to be able to deal with a wider class of problems for which the... View full abstract»

• ### Plasma Position and Elongation Regulation at FTU Using Dynamic Input Allocation

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):641 - 651
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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In this paper we employ and extend the dynamic allocation theory first presented in a recent work by the last author, L. Zuccarian, to guarantee asymptotic tracking of a prescribed elongation of the plasma cross section in the Frascati Tokamak Upgrade (FTU). This task is hard to accomplish because it can only be achieved using the so-called poloidal coil, a high bandwidth actuator needed to perfor... View full abstract»

• ### Single-Link Flexible Manipulator Control Accommodating Passivity Violations: Theory and Experiments

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):652 - 662
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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The robust control of a system which is nominally passive, but experiences a passivity violation is considered in this paper. Specifically, we utilize the hybrid passivity and finite gain stability theorem to robustly control a single-link flexible manipulator experiment. This system is nominally passive, but passivity is destroyed by, for example, sensor dynamics. The hybrid theorem is specifical... View full abstract»

• ### On the Stability and Agility of Aggressive Vehicle Maneuvers: A Pendulum-Turn Maneuver Example

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):663 - 676
Cited by:  Papers (17)  |  Patents (1)
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We present a dynamic stability and agility study of a pendulum-turn vehicle maneuver. Instead of optimizing the controlled inputs to mimic expert human driver performance, we focus on understanding the stability and agility performance of the vehicle motion using professional racing car driver testing data. We propose to use the rear side slip angle, rather than the vehicle mass center side slip a... View full abstract»

• ### An Intelligent Mill Load Switching Control of the Pulverizing System for an Alumina Sintering Process

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):677 - 687
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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This paper proposes an intelligent switching control strategy for the pulverizing system for an alumina sintering process. The control strategy consists of a coordinating controller, a proportional-integral (PI) controller, a rule-based reasoning controller and a switching mechanism. The practical application to a pulverizing system in an alumina sintering process has shown that when the hot air t... View full abstract»

• ### Physics-Based Model Predictive Control of HCCI Combustion Phasing Using Fast Thermal Management and VVA

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):688 - 699
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) is a promising internal combustion engine concept. It holds promise of combining low emission levels with high efficiency. However, as ignition timing in HCCI operation lacks direct actuation and is highly sensitive to operating conditions and disturbances, robust closed-loop control is necessary. To facilitate control design and allow for porting of ... View full abstract»

• ### Simultaneous $H_infty$ Vibration Control of Fluid/Plate System via Reduced-Order Controller

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):700 - 711
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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We consider the problem of the active reduction of structural vibrations of a plane wing induced by the sloshing of large masses of fuel inside partly full tank. This study focuses on an experimental device composed of an aluminum rectangular plate equipped with piezoelectric patches at the clamped end and with a cylindrical tip-tank, more or less filled with liquid at the opposite free end. The c... View full abstract»

• ### Closed-Loop Neural Network-Based NMES Control for Human Limb Tracking

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):712 - 725
Cited by:  Papers (32)
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Closed-loop control of skeletal muscle is complicated by the nonlinear muscle force to length and velocity relationships and the inherent unstructured and time-varying uncertainties in available models. Some pure feedback methods have been developed with some success, but the most promising and popular control methods for neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) are neural network (NN)-based me... View full abstract»

• ### Identification of Coulomb Friction-Impeded Systems With a Triple-Relay Feedback Apparatus

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):726 - 737
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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This paper aims to identify friction-impeded servo-mechanical systems using a time-domain based approach with a multiple-relay feedback apparatus. By converting the closed-loop system into a triple-relay feedback system, switching conditions of a stable limit cycle are obtained. Following by this, stable oscillations are excited by choosing suitable relay gains. Hence, the level of Coulomb frictio... View full abstract»

• ### Cycle Adaptive Feedforward Approach Controllers for an Electromagnetic Valve Actuator

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):738 - 746
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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An electromagnetic valvetrain for an internal combustion engine can improve the engine thermal efficiency but requires soft landing control to avoid excessive wear and acoustic noise. To simplify the soft landing problem, the valve control algorithm is partitioned into approach and landing controllers. The landing control is responsible for the last part of the 8 mm valve travel while the approach... View full abstract»

• ### Online Tuning of Retinal Imaging Adaptive Optics Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):747 - 754
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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This brief addresses the problem of adaptive regulation in retinal imaging adaptive optics systems against the unknown and time-varying aberrations present in the eye. The proposed controller design approach relies on two steps. The first step is to construct a -parameterized set of stabilizing controllers for the multi-input multi-output system under consideration and to derive conditions on the ... View full abstract»

• ### Modeling and Distributed Control of Transition in Plane Poiseuille Flow

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):755 - 762
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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Recently a mathematical model for flow transition control in 2-D channels has been proposed that is in interconnected systems representation. The model is valid for all spatial frequencies and can be used for the synthesis of controllers for flow transition control problems in channels of infinite length. In this brief the model is validated against known features of plane Poiseuille flow and agai... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Control of a Fractional-Order HIV-Immune System With Memory

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):763 - 769
Cited by:  Papers (24)
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The fact that fractional-order models possess memory leads to modeling a fractional-order HIV-immune system. We discuss the necessary conditions for the optimality of a general fractional optimal control problem whose fractional derivative is described in the Caputo sense. Using an objective function that minimizes the infectious viral load and count of infected T cells, the optimal control proble... View full abstract»

• ### Comparing Fuzzy and Intelligent PI Controllers in Stop-and-Go Manoeuvres

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):770 - 778
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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The aim of this work was twofold: on the one hand, to describe a comparative study of two intelligent control techniques-fuzzy and intelligent proportional-integral (PI) control, and on the other, to try to provide an answer to an as yet unsolved topic in the automotive sector-stop-and-go control in urban environments at very low speeds. Commercial vehicles exhibit nonlinear behavior and therefore... View full abstract»

• ### Control of a Stand-Alone Wound Rotor Synchronous Generator: Two Sliding Mode Approaches via Regulation of the d-Voltage Component

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):779 - 786
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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In this brief two sliding mode control alternatives to regulate the stator voltage amplitude for a stand alone wound rotor synchronous generator are presented. Both controllers use the stator voltage -component error in the sliding surface. In a first case an outer proportional-integral (PI) loop controller is added to provide the proper d-voltage component reference. The second approach consists ... View full abstract»

• ### Data Driven Adaptive Predictive Control for Holonomic Constrained Under-Actuated Biped Robots

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):787 - 795
Cited by:  Papers (38)
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Fundamentally, control system designs are concerned with the flow of signals in the closed loop. In this paper, we are to present the control technique at the next level of abstraction in control system design. We construct a control using implicit function with support vector regression-based data-driven model for the biped, in the presence of parametric and functional dynamics uncertainties. Bas... View full abstract»

• ### Model Predictive Control for the Operation of Building Cooling Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):796 - 803
Cited by:  Papers (141)
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This brief presents a model-based predictive control (MPC) approach to building cooling systems with thermal energy storage. We focus on buildings equipped with a water tank used for actively storing cold water produced by a series of chillers. First, simplified models of chillers, cooling towers, thermal storage tanks, and buildings are developed and validated for the purpose of model-based contr... View full abstract»

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