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Branislav HrúzLeo MrafkoSlovak University of Technology
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Department of Automatic Control Systems Ilkovičova 3 812 19 Bratislava Slovak Republic Phone: +421 2 60291698
An analysis of the transportation systems used in the flexible manufacturing systems is introduced in the paper. Based on the analysis a class of the transportation systems is delimited, whose modeling and control is ...
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An analysis of the transportation systems used in the flexible manufacturing systems is introduced in the paper. Based on the analysis a class of the transportation systems is delimited, whose modeling and control is the subject of the paper. Important property of those systems is unidirectional zone movements of the automatic guided vehicles and transport requirements occurring spontaneously during the work of the system. A special group of the colored Petri nets interpreted for control is used for the control specification. The Petri net helps to analyze the function of the transportation system and to write the control program.
Tracking feedback control trade-offs increase dangerously with arbitrarily large uncertainties in the process model. This is shown by the bounds in the QFT domain. In this context, the paper develops a theory on the c...
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Tracking feedback control trade-offs increase dangerously with arbitrarily large uncertainties in the process model. This is shown by the bounds in the QFT domain. In this context, the paper develops a theory on the contribution of the plant uncertainty to the tracking QFT bounds through a serious study of tracking bound formulas. From this, a methodology for uncertainty fragmentation is developed. It hopes to loosen the bound toughness, or the control design trade-offs. Better feedback benefits can be achieved while reducing the high-frequency amplification of noises and disturbances at the plant input at the same time. Different QFT controllers in a controller-scheduler structure should drive different uncertainty boundaries.
The feedback control structures are required in the presence of any kind of uncertainty. The benefits of the feedback are mainly paid with an excessive bandwidth that amplifies the sensor noise, saturating the actuato...
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This paper presents an attempt to integrate attention and navigation skills in 3D embodied agents (virtual humanoids). The neural model presented has been divided in two main phases. Firstly the environment-categoriza...
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This paper presents an attempt to integrate attention and navigation skills in 3D embodied agents (virtual humanoids). The neural model presented has been divided in two main phases. Firstly the environment-categorization phase, where an online pattern recognition and categorization of the agent current sensory input data is carried out by an adaptive resonance driven self organizing neural network, which will finally simulate the agent's short term memory (STM). Secondly, the model must also learn how and when to map its current STM state into the navigation and attention motor layers of the 3D agent. We also review the world modelling and the agent vision system, and finally we present the first results extracted from two of the subsystems which conforms the complete neural model, such as, the environment categorization subsystem and the base navigation neural model.
This paper investigates the use of a production control technique known as the Response Surface methodology as a rapid prototyping tool for real time control design. The problem under consideration here is the respons...
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This paper investigates the use of a production control technique known as the Response Surface methodology as a rapid prototyping tool for real time control design. The problem under consideration here is the response of automotive drivetrains to aggressive driver input. The first torsional mode (otherwise known as "shuffle" mode) of automotive drivelines is excited by torque transients and is typically around 2-5 Hz. The effect is particularly severe during step changes from the throttle pedal ("tip in" or "tip out"), manifesting itself as an undesirable low frequency longitudinal acceleration oscillation, leading to driver discomfort. The control of this aspect of "driveability" (the error between expected vehicle response and actual vehicle response to an arbitrary control input) is examined, using feedforward control. The overriding principle to be obtained in this examination is the assessment of electronic throttle control in the context of rapid prototyping. The response surface methodology is adopted to achieve this goal. The potential of the electronic throttle for launch control is analyzed and experimentally verified.
The performance requirements stated in project specifications often comprise conflicting objectives. These objectives may further be a complex mix of steady state and dynamic performance. control devices such as solen...
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The performance requirements stated in project specifications often comprise conflicting objectives. These objectives may further be a complex mix of steady state and dynamic performance. control devices such as solenoid actuators are often chosen purely on steady state force characteristics, due to the difficulty of appraising the conflicting and generally non-linear nature of the performance objectives. This can have ramifications in terms not only of the actuator performance, but also in the overall controllability of the system when closed-loop control is implemented. An example automotive application examining the multi objective controllability of electronically actuated valves is presented. Multi objective evolutionary techniques are utilised to derive the optimal force-displacement characteristics and also dynamic characteristics of the desired actuator under the constraint of design performance criteria. The selected actuator is then assessed for its controllability and dynamic performance.
The feedback control structures are required in the presence of any kind of uncertainty. The benefits of the feedback are mainly paid with an excessive bandwidth that amplifies the sensor noise, saturating the actuato...
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The feedback control structures are required in the presence of any kind of uncertainty. The benefits of the feedback are mainly paid with an excessive bandwidth that amplifies the sensor noise, saturating the actuators. This implies the necessity of design tradeoffs highly transparent from the Quantitative Feedback Theory. Supposing a given uncertainty for a plant, the set of performance and stability requirements will condition the problem solution. Taking advantage of the QFT bound typology and formulation, the contribution of the robust specification values to their simultaneous achievement will be analysed and particularly as regards the challenging task of the controller design.
Model-based methods are commonly used for fault diagnosis. But for modern complex processes, the analytical model of the overall process is not usually available. In this paper, a multi-agent framework for distributed...
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Model-based methods are commonly used for fault diagnosis. But for modern complex processes, the analytical model of the overall process is not usually available. In this paper, a multi-agent framework for distributed fault diagnosis and isolation is proposed. The distributed fault diagnosis and isolation is achieved by a group of cooperative intelligent agents. The structure of the multi-agent framework is described. The learning algorithms employed by agents for building the fuzzy analytical model of the local process is detailed. The implementation of this agent-based approach on aero gas turbine engine fault diagnosis is also discussed.
The Object Oriented control Architecture for Autonomy (O 2 CA 2 ) is a control architecture being developed at the University of Girona for the GARBI underwater vehicle. Conceived as a hybrid, it is organised in three...
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The Object Oriented control Architecture for Autonomy (O 2 CA 2 ) is a control architecture being developed at the University of Girona for the GARBI underwater vehicle. Conceived as a hybrid, it is organised in three layers (Deliberative, control Execution and Reactive) merging the deliberation mechanisms of planning with reactive behaviours in charge of controlling the robot. The aim of this paper is to provide an overall description of the whole architecture and an in depth description of the Reactive-layer. The concepts of the architecture have been tested with the simulation of a simple mission consisting of navigating through a sequence of way-points while avoiding contact with obstacles.
Mosaics have been commonly used as visual maps for undersea exploration and navigation. The position and orientation of an underwater vehicle can be calculated by integrating the apparent motion of the images which fo...
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(纸本)0780365763
Mosaics have been commonly used as visual maps for undersea exploration and navigation. The position and orientation of an underwater vehicle can be calculated by integrating the apparent motion of the images which form the mosaic. A feature-based mosaicking method is proposed in this paper. The creation of the mosaic is accomplished in four stages: feature selection and matching, detection of points describing the dominant motion, homography computation and mosaic construction. In this work we demonstrate that the use of color and textures as discriminative properties of the image can improve, to a large extent, the accuracy of the constructed mosaic. The system is able to provide 3D metric information concerning the vehicle motion using the knowledge of the intrinsic parameters of the camera while integrating the measurements of an ultrasonic sensor. The experimental results of real images have been tested on the GARBI underwater vehicle.
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