The paper proposes a control method for a high-voltage cascade frequency converter with H-bridges, based on Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation, regardless of the number of normal and damaged H-cells in phases. Analyt...
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This article reports examines the prerequisites for development and the expected results of the application of a new systematic approach to testing Industrial control System of Nuclear Power Plants (NPP ICS) in the fi...
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Obtaining models that can be used for flight control is of outmost importance to ensure reliable guidance and navigation of spacecrafts, like a Generic Parafoil Return Vehicle (GPRV). In this paper, we convert an exis...
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Obtaining models that can be used for flight control is of outmost importance to ensure reliable guidance and navigation of spacecrafts, like a Generic Parafoil Return Vehicle (GPRV). In this paper, we convert an existing, high-fidelity nonlinear model of the atmospheric flight dynamics of a GPRV to a Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) form that enables high-performance navigation control design. Application of existing systematic conversion methods for such complicated nonlinear models often result in complex LPV representations, which are not suitable for controller synthesis. We apply and compare state-of-the-art conversion techniques on the GPRV model, including learning based approaches, to optimize the complexity and conservatism of the resulting LPV embedding. The results show that we can obtain an LPV embedding that approximates the complex nonlinear dynamics sufficiently well, where the balance between complexity, conservatism and model performance is efficiently chosen.
This paper aims at demonstrating how and that model predictive control (MPC) strategies can be used to determine optimal intervention policies against the COVID-19 pandemic. Especially for the time after a first wave ...
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This paper aims at demonstrating how and that model predictive control (MPC) strategies can be used to determine optimal intervention policies against the COVID-19 pandemic. Especially for the time after a first wave of infection and before a vaccine can be safely distributed to a sufficient extent, the intervention experience from the first outbreak can be utilized to guide the policy decision in this period. The MPC problem in this paper takes the pandemic in different regions of a country and its neighboring countries into account, while policies such as wearing masks or social distancing are selected as inputs to be optimized. This optimized policy balances the risk of a second outbreak and socio-economic costs, while considering that the measure should not be too severe to be rejected by the population. Effectiveness of this policy compared to standard intervention policies is compared through numerical simulations.
A novel metric that describes the vulnerability of the measurements in power system to data integrity attacks is proposed. The new metric, coined vulnerability index (VuIx), leverages information theoretic measures to...
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A novel metric that describes the vulnerability of the measurements in power systems to data integrity attacks is proposed. The new metric, coined vulnerability index (VuIx), leverages information theoretic measures t...
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This paper proposes a high-level path planning strategy under Time Petri net (TPN) formalism for a multiagent system, which is subject to Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL) specifications. The work aims to design a...
This paper proposes a high-level path planning strategy under Time Petri net (TPN) formalism for a multiagent system, which is subject to Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL) specifications. The work aims to design a scalable model with respect to the number of agents, as the MITL formula requires multiple agents to ensure similar tasks. The obtained model is denoted Composed Time Petri net and it couples two TPN representations assigned to the motion of the agents, respectively to the MITL specification. The planning approach is based on model-checking methods and the results are evaluated on a case study applied in robotics industry.
Chest radiography presents one of the main medical imaging modalities for diagnosing lung diseases. To assist radiologists during interventional procedures, this paper aims at proposing a transfer learning-based class...
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Colorectal cancer is the third most diagnosed cancer in the world, but it has a higher mortality rate in men compared to women. However, we are not close to understanding how and why sex influences the outcome of the ...
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Colorectal cancer is the third most diagnosed cancer in the world, but it has a higher mortality rate in men compared to women. However, we are not close to understanding how and why sex influences the outcome of the disease. This study focuses on mRNA expression profiles of colon cancer patients to look for molecular differences in the development of colon cancer between men and women. We used paired expression data (i.e., data collected in pairs of normal and cancer cells, by taking samples from the same individual), we identified differentially expressed genes (cancer vs normal) and computed co-expression and differential co-expression gene networks (men vs women). Doing so, we inferred the main changes and alterations happening in cancer tissues, and specifically how these changes were different among men and women. We found that the co-expression networks of women and men affected by colon cancer are quite different and we reported the genes that show the most differences in this comparison, checking if they could also be associated to sexual dimorphism or sexual hormones. Among these genes we found a interesting presence of genes associated to the Wnt signaling pathway which has been found to be regulated by estrogen and whose activation is strongly linked with colon cancer.
In this paper, moment matching-based loop shaping design for finite-dimensional linear systems is considered. First, the time-domain moment matching model reduction problem with complex-conjugated pole-zero placement ...
In this paper, moment matching-based loop shaping design for finite-dimensional linear systems is considered. First, the time-domain moment matching model reduction problem with complex-conjugated pole-zero placement is revisited. We explicitly calculate the free parameters such that the reduced order model, achieving moment-matching at complex-conjugated interpolation points, has pairs of complex-conjugated poles and zeros placed in desired locations. Then, we recast the problem of closed-loop pole placement in terms of moment-matching, with the moments equal to −1 and 0, respectively. Consequently, the free parameters of a model achieving both moment matching at complex-conjugated points and closed-loop pole placement at prescribed locations are determined. Furthermore, we combine the classical loop shaping method with closed-loop pole placement via moment matching to design a robust controller for stable, minimum-phase, proper systems. We illustrate the proposed moment matching-based loop shaping approach on a benchmark example.
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