Implementation of active control has much potential to contribute to the creation and construction of innovative structures. This paper summarizes recent research of the authors that is the study of biomimetic control...
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Implementation of active control has much potential to contribute to the creation and construction of innovative structures. This paper summarizes recent research of the authors that is the study of biomimetic control solutions regarding balance and locomotion of robotic systems. A first goal of the work consists in identifying solutions necessary to balance the individual systems. Research has been focused both on systems with a single foot, but also on biped, tripods, quadrupeds, hexapods and octopods. Static balance is achieved by a proper mechanical design (Bizdoaca and Petrisor, 2009), but also by a corresponding load / tensioning actuators systems that can compensate for inertial elements that can lead to system stability limit. Theoretical studies have been focused on developing an efficient stepping algorithm in environment with strong uncertainties, known as SSTA algorithm. The article present a series of experiments made with servo actuated and smart actuated (based on shape memory alloy, especially) walking biomimetic structures.
When a micro cantilever with a nanoscale tip is manipulated on a substrate with atomic roughness, e.g., pushing an atomic-scale sample or etching the surface of the substrate to draw desired patterns, the periodical l...
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A control method for small domestic power plants using renewable energy is described in this paper. This method is not only capable of optimizing the working point of the plant but also implements active power factor ...
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A control method for small domestic power plants using renewable energy is described in this paper. This method is not only capable of optimizing the working point of the plant but also implements active power factor correction and lowers the extant harmonic distortion in the line. The novel element in the proposed complex controller structure is the upper harmonic controller that minimizes the amplitudes of the 3rd, 5th 7th, 9th, and the 11th upper harmonic component in the output voltage. The proposed controller has been investigated by simulation in Matlab environment, and as a result, substantial improvement of the output voltage and current waveform could be achieved. Robustness of the method against nonlinear loads has also been tested.
Establishing a smart power grid utilizing advanced agent information technology has raised much attention recently. In this paper we propose a method that is based on coordination and negotiation among a set of distri...
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Establishing a smart power grid utilizing advanced agent information technology has raised much attention recently. In this paper we propose a method that is based on coordination and negotiation among a set of distributed local power committees who could together reach a consensus of “global” optimal power restoration solution in cope with local power failures after a fault is detected in a power grid. The optimality criteria can be specified by a human power manager in terms of actual operation costs such as the minimum number of switch actions. We show how local distributed agent committees whose members are essentially switch agents and power generator agents are connected locally as neighbors and can find a global optimal solution to the power restoration problem by localizing their decisions in the local committee and by communicating and negotiating via neighbors of their committee members.
A simple dynamic model of an industrial size synchronous generator operating in a nuclear power plant is developed in this paper based on first engineering principles. The constructed state-space model consists of a n...
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A simple dynamic model of an industrial size synchronous generator operating in a nuclear power plant is developed in this paper based on first engineering principles. The constructed state-space model consists of a nonlinear state equation and a bi-linear output equation. It has been shown that the model is locally asymptotically stable with parameters obtained from the literature for a similar generator. The effect of load disturbances on the partially controlled generator has been analyzed by simulation using a traditional PI controller. It has been found that the controlled system is stable and can follow the set-point changes in the effective power well. The disturbance rejection of the controller is also satisfactory.
This paper presents a framework for investigating opportunistic routing in Delay Tolerant Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (DTMANETs). It introduces a novel concept of Opportunistic Confidence Index (OCI). The OCI enables multi...
This paper presents a framework for investigating opportunistic routing in Delay Tolerant Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (DTMANETs). It introduces a novel concept of Opportunistic Confidence Index (OCI). The OCI enables multiple opportunistic routing protocols to be applied as an adaptive group to improve DTMANET routing reliability, performance, and efficiency.
This paper proposes an annealed particle swarm optimization based particle filter algorithm for articulated 3D human body tracking. In our algorithm, a sampling covariance and an annealing factor are incorporated into...
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This paper proposes an annealed particle swarm optimization based particle filter algorithm for articulated 3D human body tracking. In our algorithm, a sampling covariance and an annealing factor are incorporated into the velocity updating equation of particle swarm optimization (PSO). The sampling covariance and the annealing factor are initiated with appropriate values at the beginning of the PSO iteration, and `annealing' is carried out at reasonable steps. Experiments with multi-camera walking sequences from the Brown dataset show that: 1) the proposed tracker can effectively alleviate the problem of inconsistency between the image likelihood and the true model; 2) the tracker is also robust to noise and body self-occlusion.
In this paper, the grasp operation of an underactuated finger mechanism is simulated with the aim to characterize and analyze its performance. The design of the proposed mechanism is based on spring systems that give ...
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In this paper, the grasp operation of an underactuated finger mechanism is simulated with the aim to characterize and analyze its performance. The design of the proposed mechanism is based on spring systems that give suitable underactuation characteristics. A CAD model is proposed and then it is used in a procedure for numerical simulation. Simulation results show suitable capability for grasping a wide range of objects in size and shape by operating the mechanism inside the finger body. The achieved grasp has been simulated as a human-like functionality with a grasp contact in each phalanx.
This paper suggests a new stability analysis approach dedicated to a class of fuzzy control systems controlling multi input-multi output (MIMO) nonlinear processes by means of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy logic controllers. Th...
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This paper suggests a new stability analysis approach dedicated to a class of fuzzy control systems controlling multi input-multi output (MIMO) nonlinear processes by means of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy logic controllers. The approach is based on LaSalle's global invariant set theorem, and an original stability theorem offers sufficient stability conditions. The applicability and efficiency of the theoretical results are illustrated by a MIMO case study dealing with the fuzzy control of a spherical three tank system.
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