Robust steering control is used here for improving the yaw dynamics of a passenger car. A specific two degree of freedom control structure is adapted to the vehicle yaw dynamics problem and shown to robustly improve p...
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Robust steering control is used here for improving the yaw dynamics of a passenger car. A specific two degree of freedom control structure is adapted to the vehicle yaw dynamics problem and shown to robustly improve performance. The design study is based on six operating conditions for vehicle speed and the coefficient of friction between the tires and the road representing the operating domain of the vehicle. The relevant design specifications are formulated as attaining Hurwitz stability and a mixed sensitivity frequency domain bound. Simple, and therefore, easily implementable controller transfer functions with two design parameters are chosen for the two steering controller degrees of freedom. Using the parameter space method, the design specifications are mapped into the plane of controller parameters. The effectiveness of the final design is demonstrated using simulations.
A method for suppressing residual vibrations in flexible systems is presented and experimentally demonstrated. The proposed method is based on the preconditioning of the inputs to the system using conventional low-pas...
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A method for suppressing residual vibrations in flexible systems is presented and experimentally demonstrated. The proposed method is based on the preconditioning of the inputs to the system using conventional low-pass FIR digital filters. Several classes of FIR filters such as: a) Parks-McClellan; b) window-based method (using Chebyshev window); and c) constrained least squares method, are shown to demonstrate excellent vibration suppression when they are properly designed while they introduce minimum possible delay. In order to ensure maximally robust behavior, the filter stop band is selected to cover all possible variations of the system dynamic parameters. The proposed method does not require modeling of the flexible system, can be used in a variety of systems exhibiting vibrations, is independent of the guidance function, is simple to implement in practical applications and robust to variations of the system dynamic parameters. The method is experimentally verified using a flexible aluminum beam attached at the end-effector of a robot manipulator. The beam is rotated, using one joint of the manipulator, from an initial to a final position. During this motion, vibrations of the beam are excited due to inertial forces. It is shown that the preconditioned inputs to the flexible system induce very little amount of residual vibrations compared to the inputs with no preconditioning.
It is shown how a passive multiple trailer system is designed and controlled for practical applications. The main focus is reducing the trajectory tracking error and the scope of the paper is limited to the passive sy...
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It is shown how a passive multiple trailer system is designed and controlled for practical applications. The main focus is reducing the trajectory tracking error and the scope of the paper is limited to the passive systems due to the cost and simplicity of the trailer mechanism. Three kinds of passive trailers are introduced, and then the analysis of path tracking performance is carried out, in order to show that the proposed off-hooked trailer is advantageous in a practical sense. Stability, issues are discussed with constant reference velocity. Numerical simulation results and experimental results are presented.
The paper shows the main advantage of certain low-complexity digital control strategies over techniques resulting in more complex control systems; that is, the superior level of performance when subjected to finite wo...
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(纸本)0780373065
The paper shows the main advantage of certain low-complexity digital control strategies over techniques resulting in more complex control systems; that is, the superior level of performance when subjected to finite wordlength effects. Examples demonstrate the performance limitations associated with highly complex control laws and the benefits of using properly selected, simple control schemes when implemented with fixed- and floating-point arithmetic and restricted number of bits.
This paper shows that the analysis and the design of discrete-time models of continuous-time systems can be carried out within a single framework. Briefly, all classes of discrete-time models, namely the invariant mod...
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This paper shows that the analysis and the design of discrete-time models of continuous-time systems can be carried out within a single framework. Briefly, all classes of discrete-time models, namely the invariant models, the mapping models and the matched pole-zero models, are shown to incorporate the common structure of a hold followed by a continuous-time system and the ideal sampler. This interpretation of discrete-time models of continuous-time systems facilitates the understanding of the differences and similarities among the various discrete-time models. A numerical example illustrates the concepts involved.
The main features of Multi-Agent System (MAS) are the cooperation, coordination and communication between agents. One good test-bed for MAS is the robotsoccer. In robotsoccer the behaviour of each player in own team c...
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The main features of Multi-Agent System (MAS) are the cooperation, coordination and communication between agents. One good test-bed for MAS is the robotsoccer. In robotsoccer the behaviour of each player in own team can be calculated. But the behaviour of opponent robots and the ball can not be exactly estimated. It is necessary to predict the future position of the opponent robots and the ball. This paper will present an algorithm for the prediction of position of robots and ball.
In this paper, a method for suppressing residual vibrations in flexible mechatronic systems is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The proposed method is based on the preconditioning of the arbitrary inputs to t...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780367367
In this paper, a method for suppressing residual vibrations in flexible mechatronic systems is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The proposed method is based on the preconditioning of the arbitrary inputs to the system using infinite impulse response (IIR) digital filters. To ensure robust behavior, the filter stop band is selected to cover all possible variations of the system dynamic parameters. It is shown that some of the IIR filters are capable of suppressing vibrations when they are properly designed.
The aim of the work is to determine the best landmark for its use in tasks such as precise positioning of AGVs or mobile robots in front of loading/unloading areas. The work developed aims at determining the precision...
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(纸本)0780365763
The aim of the work is to determine the best landmark for its use in tasks such as precise positioning of AGVs or mobile robots in front of loading/unloading areas. The work developed aims at determining the precision that can be achieved with different pattern landmarks, of use in positioning systems, based on computer vision. Different computer vision algorithms have been tested from the images acquired from different camera configurations and bending angles with respect to the vertical axis. As a result of the evaluation of these errors, we extract the recommendation of the most favourable bicolour pattern to be used, as well as the bounding errors obtained from the segmentation and recognition methods most frequently used.
The paper presents an integrated software-hardware solution to effectively model and simulate internal combustion engine control systems. The solution is based on RT-LAB/sup TM/. The characteristics of the proposed mo...
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The paper presents an integrated software-hardware solution to effectively model and simulate internal combustion engine control systems. The solution is based on RT-LAB/sup TM/. The characteristics of the proposed modeling and simulation approach are the preservation of accuracy in the face of relatively large fixed simulation steps and the achievement of real-time and faster than real-time simulation execution. The results of numerical simulations, which show a relatively high accuracy and the gains in execution speeds obtained with various physical configurations, are also provided.
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.
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