# IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

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Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology publication information

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s): C2
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• ### Multimode $Q$ Control in Tapping-Mode AFM: Enabling Imaging on Higher Flexural Eigenmodes

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1149 - 1159
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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Numerous dynamic atomic force micros- copy (AFM) methods have appeared in recent years, which make use of the excitation and detection of higher order eigenmodes of the microcantilever. The ability to control these modes and their responses to excitation is believed to be the key to unraveling the true potential of these methods. In this paper, we highlight a multimode Q control method that exhibi... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Sliding Mode Control of pH in Tubular Photobioreactors

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1160 - 1173
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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This paper describes the development of a distributed sliding mode control controller to regulate the pH of a tubular photobioreactor using the total inorganic carbon as the controlled variable of the process. The main purpose of the control system is to maintain the pH around a desired reference value and, at the same time, attenuate the undesirable transients caused by the disturbances. To study... View full abstract»

• ### Range and Motion Estimation of a Monocular Camera Using Static and Moving Objects

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1174 - 1183
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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We propose a method of estimating the motion of a monocular camera looking at moving objects and their range. Unlike the previous studies where the camera and object motion should be constrained in estimating structure and motion (SaM) of moving objects, the proposed method do not require those constraints even though only a monocular camera is used. By first arranging the SaM dynamics in terms of... View full abstract»

• ### Sensor Fault Detection, Isolation, and Identification Using Multiple-Model-Based Hybrid Kalman Filter for Gas Turbine Engines

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1184 - 1200
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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In this paper, a novel sensor fault detection, isolation, and identification (FDII) strategy is proposed using the multiple-model (MM) approach. The scheme is based on multiple hybrid Kalman filters (MHKFs), which represents an integration of a nonlinear mathematical model of the system with a number of piecewise linear (PWL) models. The proposed fault detection and isolation (FDI) scheme is capab... View full abstract»

• ### Flatness-Based Torque Control of Saturated Surface-Mounted Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1201 - 1213
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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Modern permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) may also be operated in regimes where significant magnetic saturation occurs. Classical fundamental wave models do not incorporate magnetic saturation in a systematic way. Mostly, only heuristic extensions can be found in the literature. Control schemes based on such dq0-models are thus often unable to achieve the given control demands. This pap... View full abstract»

• ### UAV State Estimation Using Adaptive Complementary Filters

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1214 - 1226
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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We address the complete state estimation problem of unmanned aerial vehicles, even under high-dynamic 3-D aerobatic maneuvers, while using low-cost sensors with bias variations and higher levels of noise. In such conditions, the control demand, for a robust real-time data fusion filter with minimal lag and noise, is addressed with the efficiency of a complementary filter scheme. First, the attitud... View full abstract»

• ### System Identification and Robust Control of Multi-Input Multi-Output Active Magnetic Bearing Systems

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1227 - 1239
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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This paper studies the system identification and robust control of a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) active magnetic bearing (AMB) system. The AMB system under study is open-loop unstable, and the presence of right-half plane zeros and the rotor flexible modes bring additional degrees of difficulty to the control design of such a system. First, a closed-loop system identification is performed usin... View full abstract»

• ### Trailer Steering Control of a Tractor–Trailer Robot

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1240 - 1252
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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In this paper, we consider active trailer steering control as a means to improve the maneuverability of (long) truck-trailer combinations during cornering. Hereto, we formulate the problem of reducing the so-called swept path width during cornering and that of eliminating unsafe tail swing of the trailer as a tracking control problem. We present a kinematic tractor-trailer model including off-axle... View full abstract»

• ### Stability Margin Improvement of Vehicular Platoon Considering Undirected Topology and Asymmetric Control

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1253 - 1265
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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The platooning of autonomous vehicles has the potential to significantly improve traffic capacity, enhance highway safety, and reduce fuel consumption. This paper studies the scalability limitations of large-scale vehicular platoons moving in rigid formation, and proposes two basic ways to improve stability margins, i.e., enlarging information topology and employing asymmetric control. A vehicular... View full abstract»

• ### Simplex Guided Extremum Seeking Control With Convergence Detection to Improve Global Performance

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1266 - 1278
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This paper presents a novel approach to improve the global performance of extremum seeking control (ESC). This algorithm employs perturbation-based ESC to find local extrema and a simplex-based algorithm to search for the global extremum. The two methods are employed in an iterative switching manner. We propose a novel frequency-domain criterion to detect when the state of a system under ESC has c... View full abstract»

• ### High-Precision Low-Power Wireless Nodes’ Synchronization via Decentralized Control

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1279 - 1293
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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Time synchronization is crucial for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), where operations often rely on time ordering of events. WSNs are deployed in different scenarios, and therefore their timing requirements are often related to the peculiar characteristics of the specific environment they have to act in. Synchronization is anyway always an issue: transactional applications need monotonicity of the... View full abstract»

• ### Correct-by-Construction Adaptive Cruise Control: Two Approaches

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1294 - 1307
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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Motivated by the challenge of developing control software provably meeting specifications for real-world problems, this paper applies formal methods to adaptive cruise control (ACC). Starting from a linear temporal logic specification for ACC, obtained by interpreting relevant ACC standards, we discuss in this paper two different control software synthesis methods. Each method produces a controlle... View full abstract»

• ### Energy Optimization Study of Rural Deep Well Two-Stage Water Supply Pumping Station

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1308 - 1316
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An optimal mathematical model studying the large number of distributed water supply systems powered by a two-stage pump station is discussed in this paper. Considering rural water demand and time-of-use electricity pricing, which will have an impact on operation cost, a mathematical model is established to minimize the electricity consumption of system operation. An improved dynamic programming al... View full abstract»

• ### A Plug-and-Play Realization of Decentralized Feedback Control for Smart Lighting Systems

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1317 - 1327
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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This paper proposes decentralized feedback controllers with plug-and-play capability for a class of smart lighting systems. In these systems, each light fixture has a spectrally tunable light source and a multichannel color sensor, and no communication is required between fixtures. Further, the light transport in the illuminated space is diagonally dominant, i.e., the light sensed by each sensor i... View full abstract»

• ### Model-Free Unified Tracking and Regulation Visual Servoing of Wheeled Mobile Robots

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1328 - 1339
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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In this paper, a unified tracking and regulation visual servoing strategy is proposed for a wheeled mobile robot equipped with an onboard camera, wherein the 2-1/2-D visual servoing scheme helps to keep targets in the camera's field of view. Specifically, a novel composite error vector, including both image signals and rotational angles, is defined and then calculated by comparing the feature poin... View full abstract»

• ### Dynamic Positioning With Model Predictive Control

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1340 - 1353
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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Marine vessels with dynamic positioning (DP) capability are typically equipped with sufficient number of thrusters to make them overactuated and with satellite navigation and other sensors to determine their position, heading, and velocity. An automatic control system is tasked with coordinating the thrusters to move the vessel in any desired direction and to counteract the environmental forces. T... View full abstract»

• ### Friction Compensation Control for Power Steering

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1354 - 1367
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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The effects of friction are critical to the dynamics of electric power steering (EPS). On the one hand, friction contributes to the stability of the system and filters some of the disturbances (road vibration, etc.). On the other hand, it negatively affects the driving feel and refrains from accurate positioning of the steering wheel. In addition, for steering manufacturers, friction hinders the d... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive EKF-Based Vehicle State Estimation With Online Assessment of Local Observability

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1368 - 1381
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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In this paper, an extended Kalman filter-based estimator adopting a dynamic vehicle model for determining the vehicle's longitudinal and lateral velocity as well as the yaw rate is proposed. Two additional adaptation states are introduced to scale longitudinal and lateral tire forces if necessary to account for uncertainties in the tire/road contact. As excitation plays a vital role as far as obse... View full abstract»

• ### Fixed-Structure Feedforward Control Law for Minimum- and Nonminimum-Phase LTI SISO Systems

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1382 - 1393
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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Fundamental limitation of the model-inverse feedforward control results from instability or noncausality of the inverse of nonminimum-phase dynamics which cannot be applied in practice. To overcome this limitation, the approximate-inverse methods have been proposed in the literature. Structures of feedforward controllers proposed so far highly depend on a plant model structure. Therefore, in gener... View full abstract»

• ### Model Predictive Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots Without Stabilizing Constraints and Costs

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1394 - 1406
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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The problem of steering a nonholonomic mobile robot to a desired position and orientation is considered. In this paper, a model predictive control (MPC) scheme based on tailored nonquadratic stage cost is proposed to fulfill this control task. We rigorously prove asymptotic stability while neither stabilizing constraints nor costs are used. To this end, we first design suitable maneuvers to constr... View full abstract»

• ### Experimental Validation of a Likelihood-Based Stochastic Knock Controller

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1407 - 1418
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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New likelihood-based stochastic knock controllers have the potential to deliver a significantly improved regulatory response relative to conventional strategies, while also maintaining a rapid transient response, but evaluation studies to date have been performed only in simulation. In this paper, an experimental validation of the new strategy is presented. To demonstrate the robustness of the met... View full abstract»

• ### Nonlinear Pressure Control for BBW Systems via Dead-Zone and Antiwindup Compensation

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1419 - 1431
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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In the automotive field, brake-by-wire (BBW) systems are electronically regulated actuators, which are capable of applying a desired braking torque to the vehicle's wheel. Specifically, the electrohydraulic technology is the most widely used in commercial vehicles, as it offers a good tradeoff in terms of size, weight, and cost. However, control of BBW actuators in such a configuration is a challe... View full abstract»

• ### Tracking Control for Optical Manipulation With Adaptation of Trapping Stiffness

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1432 - 1440
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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In the optical manipulation problem of biological cells, the optical trap works only in a small neighborhood around the centroid of a focused light beam. Due to the Gaussian distribution of light intensity, the trapping stiffness is dependent on the distance between the cell and the centroid of the laser beam. In addition, the parameters of the stiffness vary with laser power and sizes of cells, a... View full abstract»

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