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# IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

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Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology publication information

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s): C2
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• ### Piecewise Affine System Identification of a Hydraulic Wind Power Transfer System

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2077 - 2086
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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Hydraulic wind power transfer systems exhibit a highly nonlinear dynamic influenced by system actuator hysteresis and disturbances from wind speed and load torque. This paper presents a system identification approach to approximate such a nonlinear dynamic. Piecewise affine (PWA) models are obtained utilizing the averaged nonlinear models of hysteresis in a confined space. State-space representati... View full abstract»

• ### Self-Tuning Mechanism for the Design of Adaptive Secondary Mirror Position Control

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2087 - 2100
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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Deformable mirrors (DMs) are electromechanical devices used in ground-based telescopes to compensate for the distortions caused by the atmospheric turbulence, the main factor limiting the resolution of astronomical imaging. Adaptive secondary mirrors (ASMs) represent a new type of DMs; two of them have been recently installed on the 8-m-class large binocular telescope (LBT). ASMs are able to joint... View full abstract»

• ### Wind Tunnel Testing of Subspace Predictive Repetitive Control for Variable Pitch Wind Turbines

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2101 - 2116
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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An increasing number of wind turbines implement individual blade pitch control (IPC) to reduce turbine dynamic loading, and thereby, to reduce the capital and operational costs associated with energy production. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate IPC on a wind turbine prototype, in a model-free data-driven manner and with reduced pitch activity. For this, subspace predictive repetitive contro... View full abstract»

• ### Generic Nonsmooth $\mathcal {H}_{\infty }$ Output Synthesis: Application to a Coal-Fired Boiler/Turbine Unit With Actuator Dead Zone

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2117 - 2128
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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Actuator nonidealities, such as backlash, dead zone, and others, present in a number of industrial systems, are known to severely degrade system performance. Providing nonconservative closed-loop robust performance guarantees for these systems in a consistent manner has been an open problem. For example, in boiler/turbine units, the turbine valve position actuation for manipulating steam flow rate... View full abstract»

• ### Real-Time Model Predictive Control for Shipboard Power Management Using the IPA-SQP Approach

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2129 - 2143
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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Shipboard integrated power systems, the key enablers of ship electrification, call for effective power management control (PMC) to achieve optimal and reliable operation in dynamic environments under hardware limitations and operational constraints. The design of PMC can be treated naturally in a model predictive control (MPC) framework, where a cost function is minimized over a prediction horizon... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Control of a Recompression Four-Cylinder HCCI Engine

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2144 - 2154
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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An adaptive controller is presented for the control of combustion phasing in a multicylinder homogeneous charge compression ignition engine. Adaptive parameter estimation is used to modify a model-based feedforward controller for each cylinder's start of injection (SOI) timing in an effort to mitigate model errors and increase the feedforward control accuracy. In-cylinder pressure measurements are... View full abstract»

• ### Sampling-Based Learning Control for Quantum Systems With Uncertainties

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2155 - 2166
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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Robust control design for quantum systems has been recognized as a key task in the development of practical quantum technology. In this paper, we present a systematic numerical methodology of sampling-based learning control (SLC) for control design of quantum systems with uncertainties. The SLC method includes two steps of training and testing. In the training step, an augmented system is construc... View full abstract»

• ### Multiple-Loop Self-Triggered Model Predictive Control for Network Scheduling and Control

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2167 - 2181
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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We present an algorithm for controlling and scheduling multiple linear time-invariant processes on a shared bandwidth-limited communication network using adaptive sampling intervals. The controller is centralized and not only computes at every sampling instant the new control command for a process but also decides the time interval to wait until taking the next sample. The approach relies on model... View full abstract»

• ### Phase-Lead Stabilization of Force-Projecting Master-Slave Systems With a New Sliding Mode Filter

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2182 - 2194
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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The force-projecting master-slave (MS) control scheme is the reversed implementation of the conventional force-reflecting scheme. This paper presents a method to stabilize force projecting MS systems using a linear phase-lead compensator and a new nonlinear filter. The nonlinear filter is a modified version of Jin et al.'s parabolic sliding mode filter, which produces a relatively small phase lag.... View full abstract»

• ### Backstepping Control of Variable Stiffness Robots

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2195 - 2202
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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Robots with elastic joints arouse an increasing interest in the robotics community. Especially, variable stiffness robots promise to be beneficial regarding robustness and task adaptability. However, the control of variable stiffness multijoint robots is challenging due to their highly nonlinear behavior. Here, we present a backstepping approach for tracking control of multijoint variable stiffnes... View full abstract»

• ### Sliding Mode Control of a Hydraulically Actuated Load Application Unit With Application to Wind Turbine Drivetrain Testing

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2203 - 2215
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This paper presents a sliding mode control strategy for a load application unit (LAU) found at Clemson University's Wind Turbine Drivetrain Testing Facility in North Charleston, SC, USA. The LAU is a multiinput, multioutput, overactuated, nonlinear, dynamic system and is part of a 7.5-MW wind turbine nacelle test bench. First, a plant model of the system is developed. Second, a sliding mode contro... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Real-Time Control of Wind Turbine During Partial Load Operation

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2216 - 2226
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A wind turbine achieves its highest energy efficiency during partial load operation when it operates at the optimal tip speed ratio (TSR), thus the optimal power coefficient. In this paper, real-time controllers are developed to improve the performance of tracking the optimal TSR during partial load operation. Dynamic programming (DP) is first applied to determine the control actions that maximize... View full abstract»

• ### Analysis of Price of Anarchy in Traffic Networks With Heterogeneous Price-Sensitivity Populations

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2227 - 2237
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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In this paper, we investigate how the scaled marginal-cost road pricing improves the price of anarchy (POA) in a traffic network with one origin-destination pair, where each edge in the network is associated with a latency function. The POA is defined as the worst possible ratio between the total latency of Nash flow and that of the socially optimal flow. All players in the noncooperative congesti... View full abstract»

• ### Truncated Predictor Feedback for Periodic Linear Systems With Input Delays With Applications to the Elliptical Spacecraft Rendezvous

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2238 - 2250
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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This paper considers truncated predictor feedback (TPF) stabilization of periodic linear systems with time-varying input delays with its applications to the elliptical spacecraft rendezvous. By carefully investigating the solutions and properties to a class of parametric Lyapunov differential equations, it is proved that TPF controllers can stabilize the periodic linear time-delay systems with arb... View full abstract»

• ### Solving Multi-UAV Dynamic Encirclement via Model Predictive Control

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2251 - 2265
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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In order for teams of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collaborate and cooperate to perform challenging group tasks, intelligent and flexible control strategies are required. One of the complex behaviors required of a team of UAVs is dynamic encirclement, which is a tactic that can be employed for persistent surveillance and/or to neutralize a target by restricting its movement. This tactic requ... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Image-Based Trajectory Tracking Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots With an Uncalibrated Fixed Camera

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2266 - 2282
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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In this paper, the uncalibrated image-based trajectory tracking control problem of wheeled mobile robots will be studied. The motion of the wheeled mobile robot can be observed using an uncalibrated fixed camera on the ceiling. Different from traditional vision-based control strategies of wheeled mobile robots in the fixed camera configuration, the camera image plane is not required to be parallel... View full abstract»

• ### Design and Evaluation of an Automatic Extraventricular Drainage Control System

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2283 - 2292
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Until this day, the drainage of cerebrospinal fluid, as necessary in case of an acute increased intracranial pressure, is conducted manually by adjusting the hydrostatic height of an external drainage bag. The associated problems with the manual open-loop control strategy are an increasing pressure error over time periods involving no correction and the inherent risk of an overdrainage, which may ... View full abstract»

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2293 - 2305
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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The enhancement of passengers' comfort and their safety are part of the constant concerns for car manufacturers. Semiactive damping control systems have emerged to adapt the suspension features, where the road profile is one of the most important factors determining the automotive vehicle performance. Because direct measurements of the road profile represent expensive solutions and are susceptible... View full abstract»

• ### Composite Adaptive Internal Model Control and Its Application to Boost Pressure Control of a Turbocharged Gasoline Engine

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2306 - 2315
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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Internal model control (IMC) explicitly incorporates the plant model and its approximate inverse and offers an intuitive controller structure and calibration procedure. In the presence of plant-model uncertainty, combining the IMC structure with parameter estimation through the certainty equivalence principle leads to adaptive IMC (AIMC), where either the plant model or its inverse is identified. ... View full abstract»

• ### Design of an Integral Suboptimal Second-Order Sliding Mode Controller for the Robust Motion Control of Robot Manipulators

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2316 - 2325
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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The formulation of an integral suboptimal second-order sliding mode ((ISSOSM) control algorithm, oriented to solve motion control problems for robot manipulators, is presented in this paper. The proposed algorithm is designed so that the so-called reaching phase, normally present in the evolution of a system controlled via the sliding mode approach, is reduced to a minimum. This fact makes the alg... View full abstract»

• ### A Potential-Game Approach for Information-Maximizing Cooperative Planning of Sensor Networks

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2326 - 2335
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This paper presents a potential-game approach for distributed cooperative selection of informative sensors, when the goal is to maximize the mutual information between the measurement variables and the quantities of interest. It is proved that a local utility function defined by the conditional mutual information of an agent conditioned on the other agents' sensing decisions leads to a potential g... View full abstract»

• ### Aerodynamic Shape Optimization via Global Extremum Seeking

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2336 - 2343
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Optimization of aerodynamic shapes using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approaches has been successfully demonstrated over a number of years; however, the typical optimization approaches employed utilize gradient algorithms that guarantee only the local optimality of the solution. While numerous global optimization techniques exist, they are usually too time consuming in practice. In this brie... View full abstract»

• ### A Robust Adaptive RBFNN Augmenting Backstepping Control Approach for a Model-Scaled Helicopter

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2344 - 2352
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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This brief investigates the trajectory tracking problem for a model-scaled helicopter with a novel robust adaptive radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) augmenting backstepping control approach. The helicopter model is first decomposed into an approximate strict-feedback format with some unmodeled dynamics. Backstepping technique is employed as the main control framework, which is augmented... View full abstract»

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