# 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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• ### Energy-Based Key-On Control of a Double Magnet Electromechanical Valve Actuator

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1133 - 1145
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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The aim of this paper is to design, analyze, and validate via experiments the control of a double magnet electromechanical valve actuator (EMVA). Such actuators have shown to be a promising solution to actuate engine valves during normal engine cycle. Their use can increase engine power, reduce fuel consumption and pollutant emissions, and improve significantly engine efficiency. To this aim, this... View full abstract»

• ### Image-Based Pointing and Tracking for Inertially Stabilized Airborne Camera Platform

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1146 - 1159
Cited by:  Papers (25)
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This paper describes a novel image-based pointing-tracking feedback control scheme for an inertially stabilized double-gimbal airborne camera platform combined with a computer vision system. The key idea is to enhance the intuitive decoupled controller structure with measurements of the camera inertial angular rate around its optical axis. The resulting controller can also compensate for the appar... View full abstract»

• ### Attitude Coordination Control for a Group of Spacecraft Without Velocity Measurements

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1160 - 1174
Cited by:  Papers (36)
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This paper investigates the problem of velocity-free attitude coordination control for a group of spacecraft with attitude represented by modified Rodrigues parameters. The communication flow among neighbor spacecraft is described by an undirected connected graph. Two velocity-free attitude coordination control schemes are proposed. By employing linear reduced-order observers, robust control and C... View full abstract»

• ### Air-Fuel Ratio Control of Spark Ignition Engines Using a Switching LPV Controller

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1175 - 1187
Cited by:  Papers (23)
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The three way catalytic converter (TWC) is a critical component for the mitigation of tailpipe emissions of modern spark ignition internal combustion (IC) engines. Because the TWC operates effectively only when the air-fuel ratio is very close to stoichiometric, accurate control of the air-fuel ratio is required. This paper uses a switching linear parameter varying (LPV) controller to regulate the... View full abstract»

• ### Nonlinear Model-Based Control of a Semi-Industrial Batch Crystallizer Using a Population Balance Modeling Framework

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1188 - 1201
Cited by:  Papers (26)
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This paper presents an output feedback nonlinear model-based control approach for optimal operation of industrial batch crystallizers. A full population balance model is utilized as the cornerstone of the control approach. The modeling framework allows us to describe the dynamics of a wide range of industrial batch crystallizers. In addition, it facilitates the use of performance objectives expres... View full abstract»

• ### Fast and Global Optimal Energy-Efficient Control Allocation With Applications to Over-Actuated Electric Ground Vehicles

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1202 - 1211
Cited by:  Papers (47)
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This paper presents a fast and global optimization algorithm for an energy-efficient control allocation (CA) scheme, which was proposed for improving the operational energy efficiency of over-actuated systems. For a class of realistic actuator power and efficiency functions, a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT)-based algorithm was devised to find all the local optimal solutions, and consequently the global ... View full abstract»

• ### FX-RLS-Based Feedforward Control for LIDAR-Enabled Wind Turbine Load Mitigation

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1212 - 1222
Cited by:  Papers (32)
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An adaptive feedforward controller based on a filtered-x recursive least square (FX-RLS) algorithm and a non-adaptive feedforward controller based on a zero-phase-error tracking control (ZPETC) technique have been designed to augment a collective pitch proportional-integral (PI) feedback controller for wind turbine rotor speed regulation and component load reduction when the wind turbine is operat... View full abstract»

• ### Hybrid ABS Control Using Force Measurement

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1223 - 1235
Cited by:  Papers (39)
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The anti-lock braking system (ABS) is the most important active safety system for passenger cars. Thanks to tire force measurement, provided for example by the new SKF load sensing hub bearing units, hybrid ABS algorithms can be made simpler and more robust than when only using wheel acceleration measurement. A two-phase algorithm is presented, where the wheel acceleration is controlled in closed-... View full abstract»

• ### Control of Multiple UAVs for Persistent Surveillance: Algorithm and Flight Test Results

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1236 - 1251
Cited by:  Papers (81)
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Interest in control of multiple autonomous vehicles continues to grow for applications such as weather monitoring, geographical mapping fauna surveys, and extra-terrestrial exploration. The task of persistent surveillance is of particular significance in that the target area needs to be continuously surveyed, minimizing the time between visitations to the same region. This distinction from one-tim... View full abstract»

• ### Effects of Imperfect Secondary Path Modeling on Adaptive Active Noise Control Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1252 - 1262
Cited by:  Papers (27)
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Implementation of adaptive active noise control (ANC) systems requires an estimate model of the secondary path to be uploaded onto digital control hardware. In practice, this model is not necessarily perfect; however, to avoid mathematical difficulties, theoretical analysis of these systems is usually conducted for a perfect secondary path model. This paper conducts a stochastic analysis on perfor... View full abstract»

• ### Constrained Temperature Control of a Solar Furnace

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1263 - 1274
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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A new constrained control strategy for a solar furnace is proposed in this paper with the goal of attaining a minimum-time transition between two values of the temperature subject to constraints on both the saturation and slew rate level of the process input. In the case of set-point step-shape signals, the strategy basically consists in implementing a (model-based) feedforward control law with ma... View full abstract»

• ### Approximate Explicit Nonlinear Receding Horizon Control for Decompression of Divers

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1275 - 1284
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This paper is based on a comprehensive dynamic mathematical model (Copernicus) of vascular bubble formation and growth during and after decompression from a dive. The model is founded on the statistical correlation between measurable venous gas emboli (VGE) and risk of severe decompression sickness (DCS) where VGE has been shown to be a reliable and sensitive predictor of decompression stress. By ... View full abstract»

• ### Identification and Control of an MR Damper With Stiction Effect and its Application in Structural Vibration Mitigation

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1285 - 1301
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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This paper presents the parameter identification and control of a magnetorheological (MR) damper with stiction effect and its application to seismic protection of a model two-story structure. This semi-active device is utilized to reduce the vibration of the model structure in response to earthquake excitations. First, modified Bingham and LuGre models which consider the stiction effect and the ve... View full abstract»

• ### Method of Multiple Fault Isolation in Large Scale Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1302 - 1310
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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In this paper, problems of the online diagnostics of multiple faults in large scale systems are presented. Possibilities of recognition of multiple faults based on the knowledge of signatures of the single faults are discussed. The distinction between simultaneous faults and the series of faults is introduced and defined. The necessary condition for diagnostic reasoning assuming an occurrence of m... View full abstract»

• ### Regularized ${rm RLS}$-$lambda$ and DHOBE: An Adaptive Feedforward for a Solenoid Valve

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1311 - 1318
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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To allow a stable and fast acting hydraulic pressure control on a continuously variable transmission (CVT) for road vehicles, an adaptive feedforward strategy is used. The Dasgupta-Huang outer bounding ellipsoid (DHOBE) and recursive least squares (RLS) with exponential forgetting factor(RLS-λ) adaptation algorithms are compared to the non-adaptive feedforward. The experiments show a clear ... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Optimal Control for Designing Automatic Train Regulation for Metro Line

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1319 - 1327
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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Automatic train regulation (ATR) plays an important role in maintaining the service quality of a metro in relation to schedule and headway adherence. However, maintaining service quality in an optimal way with less capacity utilization of infrastructure, particularly in an environment where disturbances occur frequently, is a challenge. Intrinsically, designing ATR is a real time optimal control p... View full abstract»

• ### An Improved Analytical PID Controller Design for Non-Monotonic Phase LTI Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1328 - 1333
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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An improved technique of analytical design of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers in frequency-domain for non-monotonically decreasing phase systems by means of gain crossover frequency and phase margin specifications is presented in this brief. The proposed method guarantees a minimum phase margin inside the desired bandwidth, assuring better performance to step response for the cl... View full abstract»

• ### Design and Implementation of Secure Networked Predictive Control Systems Under Deception Attacks

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1334 - 1342
Cited by:  Papers (52)
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This brief addresses the security issues of data transmitted in networked control systems (NCSs), especially confidentiality, integrity and authenticity. A secure networked predictive control system (SNPCS) architecture is presented, which integrates the Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm, Message Digest (MD5) algorithm, timestamp strategy, and recursive networked predictive control (RNPC) m... View full abstract»

• ### Clinical Decision Support and Closed-Loop Control for Cardiopulmonary Management and Intensive Care Unit Sedation Using Expert Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1343 - 1350
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) who require mechanical ventilation due to acute respiratory failure also frequently require the administration of sedative agents. The need for sedation arises both from patient anxiety due to the loss of personal control and the unfamiliar and intrusive environment of the ICU, and also due to pain or other variants of noxious stimuli. While physicians sel... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Feedforward Active Noise Cancellation in Ducts Using the Model Matching of Wave Propagation Dynamics

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1351 - 1356
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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Active noise cancellation in ducts using multiple feedforward sensors have been investigated by many researchers. When adaptive algorithms were applied, usually a lumped parameter model was assumed and the model includes the dynamics of the duct, sensors and actuators (e.g., microphone and loudspeaker). The distributed nature of the duct usually leads to a large parameter space and is difficult to... View full abstract»

• ### Decentralized Adaptive Robust Control of Robot Manipulators Using Disturbance Observers

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1357 - 1365
Cited by:  Papers (54)
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In this paper, we propose a decentralized adaptive robust controller for trajectory tracking of robot manipulators. In each local controller, a disturbance observer (DOB) is introduced to compensate for the low-passed coupled uncertainties, and an adaptive sliding mode control term is employed to handle the fast-changing components of the uncertainties beyond the pass-band of the DOB. In contrast ... View full abstract»

• ### A QFT-Based Decentralized Design Approach for Integrated Fault Detection and Control

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1366 - 1375
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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A novel practically implementable design approach is presented for integrated fault detection and control (IFDC) of uncertain systems. The desired constraints in relation to fault detection (FD) and control objectives are simultaneously considered throughout the design, and mapped to equivalent graphical bounds in Nichols chart. The resulting feedback law is obtained through an interactive loop-sh... View full abstract»

• ### Improving Continuously Variable Transmission Efficiency With Extremum Seeking Control

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1376 - 1383
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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The design of an efficiency optimal controller for the variator in a vehicular continuously variable transmission is studied. A conventional controller aims at tracking a prescribed reference for the transmission ratio and at preventing damage, but does not address efficiency. Sufficiently accurate models for the efficiency as function of the clamping forces are not available, whereas measurement ... View full abstract»

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