# 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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• ### Leakage Fault Diagnosis for an Internet-Based Three-Tank System: An Experimental Study

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):857 - 870
Cited by:  Papers (39)
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This paper investigates the leakage fault diagnosis problem for a physical Internet-based three-tank system (ITTS). Data from different devices locating at different places communicate with each other via Internet and, due to the limited bandwidth of communication channel, data suffer from delay and/or dropout phenomenon during the transmission. The resulting incomplete signals are utilized for th... View full abstract»

• ### Hybrid Fault-Tolerant Flight Control System Design Against Partial Actuator Failures

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):871 - 886
Cited by:  Papers (52)
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A model to represent loss of control effectiveness in an aircraft is developed by analyzing physical faults in the hydraulically-driven control surfaces. A hybrid fault-tolerant control system (FTCS) that combines the merits of passive and active FTCSs is proposed to accommodate this kind of partial actuator failures. The hybrid FTCS is able to first slow down the rate of fault induced system dete... View full abstract»

• ### A Switched System Approach to Exponential Stabilization Through Communication Network

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):887 - 900
Cited by:  Papers (38)
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This paper considers a networked control loop, where the plant is a “slave” part, and the remote controller and observer constitute the “master”. Since the performance of networked control systems (NCS) depends on the quality of service (QoS) available from the network, it is worth to design a controller that takes into account qualitative information on the QoS in real... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Active Chatter Control in the High-Speed Milling Process

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):901 - 917
Cited by:  Papers (30)
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Chatter is an instability phenomenon in machining processes which limits productivity and results in inferior workpiece quality, noise and rapid tool wear. The increasing demand for productivity in the manufacturing community motivates the development of an active control strategy to shape the chatter stability boundary of manufacturing processes. In this work a control methodology for the high-sp... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Dynamic Inversion Control of Linear Plants With Control Position Constraints

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):918 - 933
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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For a class of linear time-invariant systems with uncertain parameters, this paper proposes and develops a notion of the Domain of Control Authority to achieve stable adaptation in the presence of control position limits. The Domain of Control Authority defines the subspace in which the plant state can be driven in any arbitrary direction by bounded control. No restrictions are placed on the stabi... View full abstract»

• ### Recursive Predictor-Based Subspace Identification With Application to the Real-Time Closed-Loop Tracking of Flutter

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):934 - 949
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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A novel recursive predictor-based subspace identification method is presented to identify linear time-invariant systems with multi inputs and multi outputs. The method is implemented in real-time and is able to operate in open loop or closed loop. The recursive identification is performed via the subsequent solution of only three linear problems, which are solved using recursive least squares. The... View full abstract»

• ### Conferring Robustness to Path-Planning for Image-Based Control

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):950 - 959
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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Path-planning has been proposed in visual servoing for reaching the desired location while fulfilling various constraints. Unfortunately, the real trajectory can be significantly different from the reference trajectory due to the presence of uncertainties on the model used, with the consequence that some constraints may not be fulfilled hence leading to a failure of the visual servoing task. This ... View full abstract»

• ### ILC-Based Minimum Entropy Filter Design and Implementation for Non-Gaussian Stochastic Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):960 - 970
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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A new filtering approach based on the idea of iterative learning control (ILC) is proposed for linear and non-Gaussian stochastic systems. The objective of filtering is to estimate the states of linear systems with non-Gaussian random disturbances so that the entropy of output error is made to monotonically decrease along the progress of batches of process operation. The term Batch is referred to ... View full abstract»

• ### Modeling Component Concentrations of Sodium Aluminate Solution Via Hammerstein Recurrent Neural Networks

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):971 - 982
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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The component concentrations of sodium aluminate solution are important indices in alumina processing. At present, they are obtained by laboratory titration on samples taken from the production process. Due to the delays in taking and testing samples, they cannot be used for real-time control and optimization. Existing online measurements are not adopted because of the characteristics of the sodiu... View full abstract»

• ### Model Predictive Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control of a Nanopositioning Piezostage Without Modeling Hysteresis

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):983 - 994
Cited by:  Papers (42)
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This paper proposes an enhanced model predictive discrete-time sliding mode control (MPDSMC) with proportional-integral (PI) sliding function and state observer for the motion tracking control of a nanopositioning system driven by piezoelectric actuators. One distinct advantage of the proposed controller lies in that its implementation only requires a simple second-order model of the system, where... View full abstract»

• ### Linear Tracking Control for Small-Scale Unmanned Helicopters

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):995 - 1010
Cited by:  Papers (27)
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This paper presents a model-based tracking control design for small-scale unmanned helicopters. The design objective is for the helicopter to track predefined inertial position (or velocity) and heading reference trajectories. The controller is based on a nominal linear state-space model that successfully captures the small-scale helicopter coupled multivariable dynamics. The flight controller is ... View full abstract»

• ### Steering a Ferromagnetic Particle by Optimal Magnetic Feedback Control

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1011 - 1024
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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A class of feedback control policies for steering a magnetic particle in a viscous fluid and actuated by a magnetic field is presented. The magnetic field which is generated by an array of electromagnets can be adequately shaped by controlling the voltages of the electromagnets. Control design relies on a dynamical model which exploits the low-pass character of the electromagnets, the opposing vis... View full abstract»

• ### A Trajectory Generation Algorithm for Optimal Consumption in Electromagnetic Actuators

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1025 - 1032
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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Camless internal combustion engines offer improvements over traditional engines in terms of torque performance, reduction of emissions, reduction of pumping losses and fuel economy. Theoretically, electromagnetic valve actuators offer the highest potentials for improving efficiency due to their control flexibility. For real applications, however, the valve actuators developed so far suffer from hi... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Nonlinear Observer for Electropneumatic Clutch Actuator With Position Sensor

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1033 - 1040
Cited by:  Papers (5)  |  Patents (1)
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This brief proposes an adaptive nonlinear observer for an electropneumatic clutch actuator. Estimates of piston velocity, chamber pressures, and dynamic friction state are made based on piston position measurement only. Parameter estimations of the clutch load characteristics and friction coefficients are treated through adaptation, and the persistence of excitation conditions for convergence of t... View full abstract»

• ### Design of Observers With Error Limitation in Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems: A Case Study of a Hydraulic Tank System

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1041 - 1047
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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A novel descriptor observer structure is proposed in the context of discrete-time descriptor linear systems. On the basis of this new structure, the characterization of conditioned-invariant polyhedral sets with the purpose of limiting the estimation error is carried out. Limitation of the estimation error can be achieved by the computation of an as small as possible conditioned-invariant polyhedr... View full abstract»

• ### Energy-Based Swing-Up Control for a Remotely Driven Acrobot: Theoretical and Experimental Results

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1048 - 1056
Cited by:  Papers (24)
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This brief concerns the energy-based swing-up control for a remotely driven acrobot (RDA) which is a 2-link planar robot with the first link being underactuated and the second link being remotely driven by an actuator mounted at a fixed base through a belt. An energy-based swing-up controller is designed via the Lyapunov stability theory. A global motion analysis of the RDA under the designed cont... View full abstract»

• ### Design and Application of Suboptimal Mixed $H_{2}/H_{infty}$ Controllers for Networked Control Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1057 - 1065
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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This brief tackles the problem of designing suboptimal H2/H∞ controllers for linear networked control systems (NCS) subject to time-varying delays and packet dropouts. The formulation provides state feedback NCS controllers allowing to tradeoff performance and disturbance rejection. The control objective consists in designing an H2 suboptimal control minimiz... View full abstract»

• ### $H_infty$ Optimization With Pole Constraints of Static Output-Feedback Controllers—A Non-Smooth Optimization Approach

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1066 - 1072
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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A non-smooth optimization approach for designing constant output-feedback controllers for linear time-invariant systems is considered. The design requirements combine H∞ performance requirements with regional pole constraints. The pole constraints are embedded in the design criterion using a transformation on the system model which modifies the H∞-norm of the cl... View full abstract»

• ### Neural-Network-Based Contouring Control for Robotic Manipulators in Operational Space

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1073 - 1080
Cited by:  Papers (14)
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This brief presents a contouring control scheme for robotic manipulators. The geometric properties of the desired contour are incorporated in the controller design phase, and the resulting controller has been structured as a two-layered hierarchical control scheme that consists of an outer loop and an inner loop. The outer loop is formed by kinematic control system in operational space, which can ... View full abstract»

• ### Output Feedback Direct Adaptive Controller for a SMA Actuator With a Kalman Filter

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1081 - 1091
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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In this brief, a direct adaptive controller (DAC) is proposed to control a shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator. The DAC, with its advantages in parameter tuning and noise robustness, was successfully applied to control an SMA actuator. The control signal in DAC was derived via a feedback linearization method. A radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) was then employed to approximate the control... View full abstract»

• ### Feedback Linearization-Based Position Control of an Electrohydraulic Servo System With Supply Pressure Uncertainty

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1092 - 1099
Cited by:  Papers (27)
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Electrohydraulic servo systems (EHSS) are used for several engineering applications, and in particular, for efficient handling of heavy loads. proportional-integral-differential (PID) control is used extensively to control EHSS, but the closed-loop performance is limited using this approach, due to the nonlinear dynamics that characterize these systems. Recent studies have shown that feedback line... View full abstract»

• ### Reset Control of an Industrial In-Line pH Process

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1100 - 1106
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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This work presents a reset/hybrid control application of an in-line pH process. The nonlinear process dynamic is linearized around different operating points, and as a result a second-order plus dead time plant with uncertain gain and delay is obtained for control purposes. A standard PI compensator and reset compensator are designed and tuned. The main aim of this work was to compare the performa... View full abstract»

• ### Obstacle-Sensitive Trajectory Regulation via Gain Scheduling and Semidefinite Programming

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1107 - 1115
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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The regulation of vehicle trajectories in the vicinity of obstacles must focus on “critical outputs,” which vary as a function of the vehicle's position relative to obstacles as exemplified by the task of parking a car. We present an application of linear parameter-varying techniques to address this problem. We design closed-loop stable, parameter-dependent controllers, whose strateg... View full abstract»

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