Endovascular repair is a minimal invasive alternative to open surgical therapy. From a long term perspective, complications such as prostheses displacement or leaks inside the aneurysm sac (endoleaks) could appear inf...
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In this paper we propose a decentralized nonlinear controller that has the ability to enhance the transient stability and achieve voltage regulation simultaneously for multimachine power systems. This paper extends th...
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In this paper we propose a decentralized nonlinear controller that has the ability to enhance the transient stability and achieve voltage regulation simultaneously for multimachine power systems. This paper extends the existing work on the construction of TS fuzzy model using linearly independent functions from nonlinear systems. This approach is based on Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy controller via parallel distributed compensation (PDC) method. The stability analysis and control design problems can be reduced to linear matrix inequality (LMI) problems. Based on only local measurements, the designed fuzzy state feedback controller guarantees stability and satisfies desired transient responses. The proposed controller is applied to two-generator infinite bus power system. Simulation results illustrate the performance of the developed approach regardless of the system operating conditions.
Wound care skills are essential for patients in stable condition after surgery. A nurse must teach wound care skills and explain infection symptoms and signs to patients or their families before discharge to help woun...
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Wound care skills are essential for patients in stable condition after surgery. A nurse must teach wound care skills and explain infection symptoms and signs to patients or their families before discharge to help wound healing. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of group teaching with multimedia materials on wound care skills of surgical patients. This study is based on Solomon four-group design to study four surgical wards in a medical teaching hospital. There were 121 surgical patients selected according to purposive sampling, and divided into two experimental groups and two control groups. Test groups received multimedia teaching compiled by the researcher, and control groups received traditional nursing instruction. Performance of one test group and one control group were measured with a structured questionnaire before teaching, and all patients were measured after teaching. Data were collected and analyzed by SPSS/PC software package. Performance of test group and the control group before and after nursing instruction showed statistically significant difference (p=0.00). Wound care skills progress among all the four groups are significantly different (p= 0.002). It is an important task of nursing staff to provide disease-related knowledge and guidance of patient care to reduce complications. This study finds that wound care nursing guidelines with multimedia materials really enhance the wound care skills of patients and family members. It is hoped that this study will be a reference for other health education programs.
This paper proposes a supervisory control structure for networked systems with time-varying delays. The control structure, in which a supervisor triggers the most appropriate controller from a multi-controller unit, a...
This paper proposes a supervisory control structure for networked systems with time-varying delays. The control structure, in which a supervisor triggers the most appropriate controller from a multi-controller unit, aims at improving the closed-loop performance relative to what can be obtained using a single robust controller. Our analysis considers average dwell-time switching and is based on a novel multiple Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional. We develop analysis conditions that can be verified by semi-definite programming, and show that associated state feedback synthesis problem also can be solved using convex optimization. Small and large scale networked controlsystems are used to illustrate the effectiveness of our approach.
The present paper deals with fault tolerant control for linear dynamics with additive disturbances. The control action is generated based on information collected from a redundant, multi-sensors network. Delays that m...
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The present paper deals with fault tolerant control for linear dynamics with additive disturbances. The control action is generated based on information collected from a redundant, multi-sensors network. Delays that may appear during plant measurements transmission through real communication channels are considered as faults. Depending on presence of delay in feedback loop, different invariant sets can be computed. We show that fault tolerant control can be achieved through invariant sets separation with respect to different delay values. Sets separation is accomplished for specific values of the reference signal. Therefore, we introduce in the loop a reference governor which is designed by a receding horizon technique. Thus, we provide reference signals which practically guarantee fault detection and identification in real time.
This paper presents a control design based on the method of virtual constraints and hybrid zero dynamics to achieve stable running on MABEL, a planar biped with compliance. In particular, a time-invariant feedback con...
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This paper presents a control design based on the method of virtual constraints and hybrid zero dynamics to achieve stable running on MABEL, a planar biped with compliance. In particular, a time-invariant feedback controller is designed such that the closed-loop system not only respects the natural compliance of the open-loop system, but also enables active force control within the compliant hybrid zero dynamics and results in exponentially stable running gaits. The compliant-hybrid-zero-dynamics-based controller with active force control is implemented experimentally and shown to realize stable running gaits on MABEL at an average speed of 1.95 m/s (4.4 mph) and a peak speed of 3.06 m/s (6.8 mph). The obtained gait has flight phases upto 39% of the gait, and an estimated ground clearance of 7.5 - 10 cm.
This paper presents a feedback controller that allows MABEL, a kneed, planar bipedal robot, with 1 m-long legs, to accommodate an abrupt 20 cm decrease in ground height. The robot is provided information on neither wh...
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This paper presents a feedback controller that allows MABEL, a kneed, planar bipedal robot, with 1 m-long legs, to accommodate an abrupt 20 cm decrease in ground height. The robot is provided information on neither where the step down occurs, nor by how much. After the robot has stepped off a raised platform, however, the height of the platform can be estimated from the lengths of the legs and the angles of the robot's joints. A real-time control strategy is implemented that uses this on-line estimate of step-down height to switch from a baseline controller, that is designed for flat-ground walking, to a second controller, that is designed to attenuate torso oscillation resulting from the step-down disturbance. After one step, the baseline controller is re-applied. The control strategy is developed on a simplified-design model of the robot and then verified on a more realistic model before being evaluated experimentally. The paper concludes with experimental results showing MABEL (blindly) stepping off a 20 cm high platform.
The proliferation of remote laboratories in multiple disciplines of science has removed the cost and administration burdens that hinder the adoption of practical sessions in engineering education. Remote laboratories ...
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The proliferation of remote laboratories in multiple disciplines of science has removed the cost and administration burdens that hinder the adoption of practical sessions in engineering education. Remote laboratories provide online workbenches unconstrained by neither temporal nor geographical considerations and allow an interactive learning that maintains student attention. Recently, remote laboratories have been developed at multiple universities and adopted in engineering education. Furthermore, some of these laboratories are replicated at many universities such as the electronic circuit's remote labs: NetLab, VISIR, and labs based on NI ELVIS II. This was the commence of a new mainstream which advocates a better remodeling of those laboratories to allow their allocation, sharing among universities, and their communication with other heterogeneous systems, e.g., Learning Management systems (LMS). In this context, numerous sharable educational architectures for remote labs integration have emerged such as LiLa, Lab2go, ISILab, DCL, WebLab Deusto, iLab (ISA), and Labshare (Sahara). This paper reports on the emerging solutions for remote laboratories implementation and deployment in engineering education in an efficient way. The paper discusses different integration scenarios pointing out features, limitations, and upcoming challenges.
In this paper, we present an approach towards autonomous grasping of objects according to their category and a given task. Recent advances in the field of object segmentation and categorization as well as task-based g...
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In this paper, we present an approach towards autonomous grasping of objects according to their category and a given task. Recent advances in the field of object segmentation and categorization as well as task-based grasp inference have been leveraged by integrating them into one pipeline. This allows us to transfer task-specific grasp experience between objects of the same category. The effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated on the humanoid robot ARMAR-IIIa.
Advancement of computer, software, telecommunication and internet technologies during the last twenty years has fundamentally shifted the focus of the expertise in control-systemsengineering (CSE) industry. It is evi...
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Advancement of computer, software, telecommunication and internet technologies during the last twenty years has fundamentally shifted the focus of the expertise in control-systemsengineering (CSE) industry. It is evident that building high-quality modern controlsystems requires a multi-disciplinary effort as a single engineer simply cannot be an expert in all the related areas, e.g., software/computerengineering, computer science and information systems. As an experience and evidence report, this article reports on the challenges in CSE based on the authors' experience and presents observations and potential recommendations for multi-disciplinary nature of CSE. It is hoped that the article would bring awareness to the community and would be useful for the industrial practitioners and researchers working in this area in building stronger multi-disciplinary CSE teams and, ultimately, in building higher-quality modern controlsystems.
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