This paper describes RBESP, a dual stack protocol designed as part of the communication infrastructure of a short-range Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). It aims at providing a reliable communication between the UAV and ...
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This paper describes RBESP, a dual stack protocol designed as part of the communication infrastructure of a short-range Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). It aims at providing a reliable communication between the UAV and its base station and a best effort communication between the UAV and a WSN. RBESP targets two distinct communication requirements using the same communication transceiver. The other end of the communication link can be heterogeneous devices transmitting with the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, which is also used in the UAV transceiver. The paper details the software layers that implement both the reliable communication with the base station and the best-effort communication with the WSN nodes. Two different scenarios were implemented in order to allow RBESP evaluation. The first scenario consists of the UAV node communicating with spatially distributed sensors on the ground. In the second scenario, the UAV node delivers the collected data to the base station. Both communication scenarios are very different in terms of connection time and volume of transmitted data. Obtained results are presented and discussed along the paper.
An induction generator (IG) speed drive with the application of a sliding mode controller and a proposed artificial neural network (ANN) controller is introduced in this paper. Grid connected wind energy conversion sy...
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An induction generator (IG) speed drive with the application of a sliding mode controller and a proposed artificial neural network (ANN) controller is introduced in this paper. Grid connected wind energy conversion system (WECS) present interesting control demands, due to the intrinsic nonlinear characteristic of wind mills and electric generators. The ANN torque compensation is feed-forward to increase the robustness of the wind driven induction generator system. The proposed controller is designed to drive the turbine speed to extract maximum power from the wind and adjust to the power regulation. When sliding mode occurs on the sliding surface, the controlsystem acts as a robust state feedback system. Moreover, a sliding mode speed controller is designed based on a sliding surface.
As well-known, model predictive control is closely related to optimal control. This paper studies relationships between them and provides a unified framework for optimality analysis of model predictive controllers (MP...
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As well-known, model predictive control is closely related to optimal control. This paper studies relationships between them and provides a unified framework for optimality analysis of model predictive controllers (MPC). The optimality is evaluated by comparing total performance of MPC with finite and infinite horizon optimal cost. Based on relaxed value iteration method, upper and lower bounds of optimality evaluation functions are expressed explicitly in terms of optimization horizon. These results reveal detailed characteristics on performance of closed-loop MPC systems due to using “receding horizon optimization” implementation style.
This paper proposes a novel nonlinear distributed consensus protocol of the finite-time consensus problems of leader-follower multi-agent systems based on the distributed consensus error functions. It is proved that t...
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This paper proposes a novel nonlinear distributed consensus protocol of the finite-time consensus problems of leader-follower multi-agent systems based on the distributed consensus error functions. It is proved that the leader-follower multi-agent systems under this nonlinear protocol can reach the consensus in finite time in the scenarios with fixed topology and two kinds of switching topologies, respectively. The results are also extended to the case with directed communication topology. Finally, some examples and simulation results are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control protocols.
This paper considers distributed estimation over heterogeneous sensor networks. We propose a distributed estimation strategy based on PageRank algorithm, where the link weight depends on the edge estimation covariance...
This paper considers distributed estimation over heterogeneous sensor networks. We propose a distributed estimation strategy based on PageRank algorithm, where the link weight depends on the edge estimation covariances. We prove that the proposed estimator obtains better estimates than one typical estimator under identical initial conditions. Motivated by the advantage of the sensors with high accuracy locating at important positions, we propose an optimal sensor deployment strategy to arrange locations for sensors in a given physical network. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed estimator, showing a better performance under the optimal sensor deployment.
This paper describes a low cost wireless communication infrastructure designed for a short-range Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). It aims at providing a communication link between the UAV and a base station and also add...
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This paper describes a low cost wireless communication infrastructure designed for a short-range Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). It aims at providing a communication link between the UAV and a base station and also additional links that may allow collecting data from a remote Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The challenge here is using the same hardware to communicate with potential heterogeneous devices and using different protocols. The paper details the software layer designed to support a reliable communication with the base station, as well a highly efficient best-effort communication with nodes from a WSN. For both cases, a single IEEE 802.15.4 extended range transceiver is used. To demonstrate the proposed infrastructure, two different utilization scenarios were implemented and tested. The first consists of the UAV node communicating with spatially distributed sensors on the ground. In the second scenario, the UAV node delivers the collected data to the base station. Both communication scenarios are very different in terms of connection time and other communication requirements. Obtained results show that the proposed solution attends the related challenges.
Sensor networks have been widely utilized in various applications. In large wind farms, numerous sensor nodes are deployed across the field for monitoring purpose. They are required to work in harsh environment and us...
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Sensor networks have been widely utilized in various applications. In large wind farms, numerous sensor nodes are deployed across the field for monitoring purpose. They are required to work in harsh environment and usually undergo unexpected failures. This paper introduces a new method to model nodes of sensor networks by using two-layer neural networks (NN). Each node's dynamics and interconnections with other sensor network nodes are integrated into the model, whose accuracy is guaranteed by the NN's universal approximation property. Furthermore, the model can be subsequently employed to detect any incipient failures which can be modeled as a nonlinear function of state and input variables. An additional NN along with a novel simplified updating law is utilized for self-diagnostics, whose output can declare a failure alarm if it exceeds a certain threshold. Mathematical analysis is substantiated with simulation results.
Walking on irregular terrain is usually a common task for a quadruped robot. It is however difficult to control the robot in this situation as undesirable impulse force by collision between the foot of robot and obsta...
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Walking on irregular terrain is usually a common task for a quadruped robot. It is however difficult to control the robot in this situation as undesirable impulse force by collision between the foot of robot and obstacles makes the robot unstable. This paper presents a hybrid Force-Posture Feedback Compensation (FPFC) controller for a quadruped robot with high payload walking on irregular terrain. In order to make the robot walk stably on irregular terrain, the proposed controller utilizes the feedback signals detected by force sensor and gyroscope to adjust every leg of the robot in real-time. The foot trajectory is scheduled based on the Bezier curve method in order to improve the stability of quadruped robot. Simulations of crawling gait on irregular terrain have been performed. The results have verified that the proposed methods have better stability and performance for walking on the irregular terrain.
作者:
Xin CaiShaoyuan LiNing LiKang LiDepartment of Automation
Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing Ministry of Education Shanghai 200240 P. R. China School of Electronics
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The Queen's University Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN UK
This paper addresses the problem of infinite time performance of model predictive controllers applied to constrained nonlinear systems. The total performance is compared with a finite horizon optimal cost to reveal pe...
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This paper addresses the problem of infinite time performance of model predictive controllers applied to constrained nonlinear systems. The total performance is compared with a finite horizon optimal cost to reveal performance limits of closed-loop model predictive controlsystems. Based on the Principle of Optimality, an upper and a lower bound of the ratio between the total performance and the finite horizon optimal cost are obtained explicitly expressed by the optimization horizon. The results also illustrate, from viewpoint of performance, how model predictive controllers approaches to infinite optimal controllers as the optimization horizon increases.
Load distribution is a key technology in hot strip rolling process, which directly influences strip product quality. A multi-objective load distribution model, which takes into account the rolling force margin balance...
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Load distribution is a key technology in hot strip rolling process, which directly influences strip product quality. A multi-objective load distribution model, which takes into account the rolling force margin balance, roll wear ratio and strip shape control, is presented. To avoid the selection of weight coefficients encountered in single objective optimization, a multi-objective differential evolutionary algorithm, called MaximinDE, is proposed to solve this model. The experimental results based on practical production data indicate that MaximinDE can obtain a good pareto-optimal solution set, which consists of a series of alternative solutions to load distribution. Decision-makers can select a trade-off solution from the pareto-optimal solution set based on their experience or the importance of ob- iectives. In comparison with the empirical load distribution solution, the trade-off solution can achieve a better per- formance, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the multi-objective load distribution optimization. Moreover, the conflicting relationship among different objectives can be also found, which is another advantage of multi-objective load distribution optimization.
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