Fault-tolerant control is currently the most important step towards increased autonomy for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). In this work, we consider actuator and airframe faults in fixed-wing UAVs and show that an on...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728142784
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(纸本)9781728142791
Fault-tolerant control is currently the most important step towards increased autonomy for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). In this work, we consider actuator and airframe faults in fixed-wing UAVs and show that an online Flight Envelope (FE) calculation can interpret their effect on the achievable trim trajectories. Subsequently, we design a fully integrated control scheme with a RRT-based planner and 3 Nonlinear Model Predictive control (MPC) layers. The FE is provided at each control layer with the beneficial result that non-trimmable, unstable trajectories are avoided. Results from high-fidelity simulations are provided.
The Internet of Things (IoT) algorithms process huge amounts of heterogeneous data in real-time. One of the most computationally intensive tasks using cloud technologies is the task of clustering and classifying data....
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This work proposes a hybrid mathematical model and an optimisation-based tool to support the management of a heat-recovery section (formed by several heat exchangers) in a fibre-production factory. The purpose of the ...
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This work proposes a hybrid mathematical model and an optimisation-based tool to support the management of a heat-recovery section (formed by several heat exchangers) in a fibre-production factory. The purpose of the network is to heat different products using several hot sources, employed as utilities. Furthermore, concerns about the degradation of the equipment due to fouling are explicitly taken into account. Hence, the goals are to allocate the hot sources to heat exchangers and to suggest which heat exchanger should be cleaned to achieve optimal economic operation. Experimental models for the overall heat-transfer coefficients with respect to the flows have been identified, and production constraints are considered too. The problem is formulated such that it can be solved in a real-time optimisation fashion via mixed-integer non-linear programming. The approach has been tested through plant historical situations.
The learning data requirements are analyzed for the construction of stealth attacks in state estimation. In particular, the training data set is used to compute a sample covariance matrix that results in a random matr...
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The fluoroscopic angiography comprises a temporal sequence of images acquired with a certain frequency. Hence the time density curves can be generated from the temporal and pixels' intensities information. In the ...
The fluoroscopic angiography comprises a temporal sequence of images acquired with a certain frequency. Hence the time density curves can be generated from the temporal and pixels' intensities information. In the paper is presented a new method to process these curves in order to further extract hemodynamic parameters from cardiac X-ray angiography.
Chlorination in drinking water treatment plants (DWTP) is the final process applied to water before it is sent to storage tanks in the supply network for subsequent human consumption. An excessive dosage of chlorine o...
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(数字)9781728189567
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728189574
Chlorination in drinking water treatment plants (DWTP) is the final process applied to water before it is sent to storage tanks in the supply network for subsequent human consumption. An excessive dosage of chlorine or, conversely, too small a dosage, may breach existing legal regulations on mandatory limits. In DWTP where there is no significant variability in the quality of the water to be treated, a type of control that is proportional to the flow rate in the effluent can have fully satisfactory results. Therefore, Proportional-Integral (PI) control is a rather frequently used solution. However, when there are inherently long delays in the process, variability in the quality of the water to be treated and considerable variations alternative type is needed. This article presents the strategy and results of a control method that proposes a Fuzzy based feed-forward system to complement an existing PI control. The control system results are shown as applied to the DWTP of Barcelona city, producing satisfactory experimental results.
Information theoretic sparse attacks that minimize simultaneously the information obtained by the operator and the probability of detection are studied in a Bayesian state estimation setting. The attack construction i...
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The patients with cardiovascular diseases undergo complex medical procedures, including medical imaging, blood biochemistry analysis, physical examination, etc. The digitization of information is an intensive process ...
The patients with cardiovascular diseases undergo complex medical procedures, including medical imaging, blood biochemistry analysis, physical examination, etc. The digitization of information is an intensive process in e-health therefore, in this paper there are presented some methods to extract important data from medical records of patients suffering from coronary artery diseases organized in PDF files.
Smart meters enable improvements in electricity distribution system efficiency at some cost in customer privacy. Users with home batteries can mitigate this privacy loss by applying charging policies that mask their u...
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Smart meters enable improvements in electricity distribution system efficiency at some cost in customer privacy. Users with home batteries can mitigate this privacy loss by applying charging policies that mask their underlying energy use. A battery charging policy is proposed and shown to provide universal privacy guarantees subject to a constraint on energy cost. The guarantee bounds our strategy's maximal information leakage from the user to the utility provider under general stochastic models of user energy consumption. The policy construction adapts coding strategies for non-probabilistic permuting channels to this privacy problem.
Key processes in biological and chemical systems are described by networks of chemical reactions. From molecular biology to biotechnology applications, computational models of reaction networks are used extensively to...
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Key processes in biological and chemical systems are described by networks of chemical reactions. From molecular biology to biotechnology applications, computational models of reaction networks are used extensively to elucidate their non-linear dynamics. Model dynamics are crucially dependent on parameter values which are often estimated from observations. Over past decade, the interest in parameter and state estimation in models of (bio-) chemical reaction networks (BRNs) grew considerably. Statistical inference problems are also encountered in many other tasks including model calibration, discrimination, identifiability and checking as well as optimum experiment design, sensitivity analysis, bifurcation analysis and other. The aim of this review paper is to explore developments of past decade to understand what BRN models are commonly used in literature, and for what inference tasks and inference methods. Initial collection of about 700 publications excluding books in computational biology and chemistry were screened to select over 260 research papers and 20 graduate theses concerning estimation problems in BRNs. The paper selection was performed as text mining using scripts to automate search for relevant keywords and terms. The outcome are tables revealing the level of interest in different inference tasks and methods for given models in literature as well as recent trends. In addition, a brief survey of general estimation strategies is provided to facilitate understanding of estimation methods which are used for BRNs. Our findings indicate that many combinations of models, tasks and methods are still relatively sparse representing new research opportunities to explore those that have not been considered - perhaps for a good reason. The most common models of BRNs in literature involve differential equations, Markov processes, mass action kinetics and state space representations whereas the most common tasks in cited papers are parameter inference and model ident
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