An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) formation in a leader-follower structure, where the UAVs are flying a common trajectory determined by a route planner hosted on the leader is considered. The path description is compre...
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An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) formation in a leader-follower structure, where the UAVs are flying a common trajectory determined by a route planner hosted on the leader is considered. The path description is compressed by polynomial functions with respect to the flight envelope constraints and transmitted to the followers, where a model predictive control (MPC) outer loop controller specifies the command signals for the 7-h locally controlled dynamics with respect to the nonlinear constraints of the aircraft dynamics. Real time feasibility issues associated with the design are discussed.
A systematic methodology for generating multi-folded torus chaotic attractors from a simple three-dimensional piecewise-linear system is presented in this paper. Theoretical analysis shows that multi-folded torus chao...
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A systematic methodology for generating multi-folded torus chaotic attractors from a simple three-dimensional piecewise-linear system is presented in this paper. Theoretical analysis shows that multi-folded torus chaotic attractors can be created via alternative switching between two piecewise-linear systems. A novel circuit diagram is designed for physically creating multi-folded torus chaotic attractors. This is the first time in the literature to experimentally verify a maximum 9-folded torus chaotic attractor that is generated by an analog circuit.
This paper discusses a design flow for multithread object-oriented real-time applications, running on top of an embedded, platform-based, customizable Java processor, which is prototyped using affordable FPGAs. The pr...
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This paper discusses a design flow for multithread object-oriented real-time applications, running on top of an embedded, platform-based, customizable Java processor, which is prototyped using affordable FPGAs. The proposed approach enforces design space exploration activities, taking into account aspects like temporal behavior, memory footprint, and power/energy consumption. A case study containing a task scheduler implementation as both software and hardware modules is presented. While both implementations are compatible with the developed program from an interface point of view, they lead to different timing and footprint requirements. Their evaluation in terms of memory occupation and number of FPGA logic cells is presented.
The growing complexity of today's embedded real-time systems demands new methods and tools in order to manage the problems of design, analysis, integration and validation of complex systems. This paper describes a...
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The growing complexity of today's embedded real-time systems demands new methods and tools in order to manage the problems of design, analysis, integration and validation of complex systems. This paper describes an object-oriented platform-based design process for real-time embedded systems. The proposed approach promotes a smooth transition from high-level UML specification to implementation, which is composed by hardware and software components. The transition from higher to lower abstraction levels is facilitated by the use of an OO realtime API, whose underlying facilities can be optimized according to the application needs and selected platform. An integrated toolset is used to support the intermediate steps of the design process. In order to illustrate the proposed approach and related toolset the design of an embedded real-time automation system for an "intelligent" wheelchair is presented.
The use of network-based control has become widespread in building automationsystems. BACnet(building automation and control networks) adopts master-slave/ token-passing(MS/TP) protocol as one of its local area netwo...
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The use of network-based control has become widespread in building automationsystems. BACnet(building automation and control networks) adopts master-slave/ token-passing(MS/TP) protocol as one of its local area networks. This study introduces a bandwidth allocation scheme in the MS/IP protocol. The bandwidth allocation scheme improves the capability of real-time communication of the original MSA IT protocol. The bandwidth allocation scheme introduced in this paper can he easily implemented in the existing MS/TP protocol with a slight modification. In this study, we examined the validity of bandwidth allocation scheme using simulation models. The results from the simulation experiment show that the proposed scheme satisfies the requirements of real-time communication.
This paper presents a case study of the creation of distributed continuous simulations using DCOM components. The proposed approach considers each part of the simulation as a DCOM component and uses an efficient simul...
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This paper presents a case study of the creation of distributed continuous simulations using DCOM components. The proposed approach considers each part of the simulation as a DCOM component and uses an efficient simulation modeling language, EcosimPro, to perform the simulations contained in each one. This procedure has been applied to an industrial scale simulation corresponding to a sugar beet factory. The effect of the distribution degree in the performance has been studied. The simulation has been used to test advanced control algorithms and also in the construction of a simulator training system.
In this paper, a radial basis function network (RBFN) based adaptive H ∞ control scheme for nonlinear systems with unknown hysteresis nonlinearity is developed. This scheme applies the method of pseudo-control to the...
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This paper considers the problem of control of networked systems via output feedback. The controller consists of two parts: a state observer that estimates plant state from the output when it is available via the comm...
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This paper considers the problem of control of networked systems via output feedback. The controller consists of two parts: a state observer that estimates plant state from the output when it is available via the communication network, and a model of the plant that is used to generate a control signal when the plant output is not available from the network. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the exponential stability of the closed loop system are derived in terms of the networked dwell time and the system parameters. The results suggest simple procedures for designing the output feedback controller proposed. Numerical simulations show the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed methods.
A new approach to computing the mixed μ upper bound (ν) is presented. The method exploits the fact that a positive definite matrix V(α) becomes singular when the scalar parameter a decreases to a critical value for...
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A new approach to computing the mixed μ upper bound (ν) is presented. The method exploits the fact that a positive definite matrix V(α) becomes singular when the scalar parameter a decreases to a critical value for a given frequency. A two-level optimization strategy is used with a bisection algorithm branching on the definiteness of V in an outer loop, and a Semi-Definite Programming (SDP) problem is formulated in an inner loop. Three different formulations are posed for the inner loop. The first uses a feasibility formulation (no objective function) with a constraint V 0, which tends to make V singular if possible. The second introduces an additional variable that makes the SDP feasible at all times. In the third formulation, the trace of V is minimized with the constraint V 0, which tends to minimize the rank of V and hence make V singular. The method is applied to a distillation column benchmark problem. Although it is computationally more expensive than existing methods when computing ν for a single frequency, it is a conceptually simple method that can be efficient when computing the supremum of ν with respect to frequency.
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