The security of mobile robotic networks (MRNs) has been an active research topic in recent years. This paper demonstrates that the observable interaction process of MRNs under formation control will present increasing...
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A generally applicable design of non-collocated vibration absorption by a delayed resonator is proposed. It is grounded in the direct assignment of imaginary axis zeros of the transfer function between the periodic di...
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A generally applicable design of non-collocated vibration absorption by a delayed resonator is proposed. It is grounded in the direct assignment of imaginary axis zeros of the transfer function between the periodic disturbance force and the target. We show that these transmission zeros are characterized as eigenvalues of a delay differential-algebraic system. Furthermore, a stabilizing local controller is added to the setup in order to widen the range of admissible vibration frequencies. These design requirements are translated into an optimization problem of the spectral abscissa function subjected to zero location constraints. The presented approach and algorithm are validated by a simulation on a three body lumped mass-spring system.
This paper addresses finite-time horizon optimal control for discrete-time dynamics with additional stochastic disturbances. In contrast to most existing approaches to this problem, we also minimize the uncertainty of...
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This paper addresses finite-time horizon optimal control for discrete-time dynamics with additional stochastic disturbances. In contrast to most existing approaches to this problem, we also minimize the uncertainty of future states arising from stochastic disturbances and from an uncertain initial state. Thus, the optimal control strategy balances the minimization of the expected distances to a reference signal, and the minimization of the uncertainty respectively. As opposed to prior work, the optimization is formulated subject to possible disturbance feedback policies. This enables to solve one semi-definite program over H steps, instead of solving H problems over one step, and the resulting reduced complexity allows one to use the scheme in online and predictive control. The proposed method is applicable to time-varying state constraints (in the sense of chance constraints) as well as time-invariant input constraints.
This paper proposes an algorithm for online controller synthesis for autonomous systems with LTI dynamics considering obstacle avoidance. The obstacles are assumed to be other systems with affine probabilistic dynamic...
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This paper proposes an algorithm for online controller synthesis for autonomous systems with LTI dynamics considering obstacle avoidance. The obstacles are assumed to be other systems with affine probabilistic dynamics. The initial state as well as the disturbances of these systems are Gaussian distributed. To guarantee that the probability of a collision is smaller than a predefined threshold, probabilistic reachable sets are used. Due to the Gaussian distribution, the probabilistic reachability procedure can use the principles of the ellipsoidal calculus. For the autonomous system, these time-varying reachable sets of the other systems are avoided by an approach, which is based on model predictive control and successive convexification of the constraints. Due to high computational times required for the computation of probabilistic reachable sets and the convexification, different techniques to reduce the computational time significantly are also proposed.
Based on the extension of the behavioral theory and the Fundamental Lemma for Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) systems, this paper introduces a Data-driven Predictive control (DPC) scheme capable to ensure reference tra...
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Based on the extension of the behavioral theory and the Fundamental Lemma for Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) systems, this paper introduces a Data-driven Predictive control (DPC) scheme capable to ensure reference tracking and satisfaction of Input-Output (IO) constraints for an unknown system under the conditions that (i) the system can be represented in an LPV form and (ii) an informative data-set containing measured IO and scheduling trajectories of the system is available. It is shown that if the data set satisfies a persistence of excitation condition, then a data-driven LPV predictor of future trajectories of the system can be constructed from the IO data set and online measured data. The approach represents the first step towards a DPC solution for nonlinear and time-varying systems due to the potential of the LPV framework to represent them. Two illustrative examples, including reference tracking control of a nonlinear system, are provided to demonstrate that the data-based LPV-DPC scheme, achieves similar performance as LPV model-based predictive control.
An overview of the ancillary services in the Nigerian power sector is provided in this work. These services are essential in the power system because they are additional services required by the grid during critical t...
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(数字)9798350358834
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(纸本)9798350358841
An overview of the ancillary services in the Nigerian power sector is provided in this work. These services are essential in the power system because they are additional services required by the grid during critical times to enable the power grid to operate in a stable, safe, and reliable manner. The ancillary services provided as stipulated in the Grid Code are black start, frequency control, operating reserves, and voltage control. The System Operator procures the relevant ancillary service depending on the requirement of the grid at a particular time. The paper further presents some ways of improving the viability of ancillary services for the energy grid of Nigeria. These include making incentives more attractive for suppliers of ancillary services, utilizing more hydroelectric power plants for generation and load balancing, integrating distributed generation to provide support to the reactive power, and making necessary investments in the grid.
Nowadays, data-intensive processing applications, such as multimedia, high-performance computing and safety-critical ones (e.g., in automotive) employ General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) due to their pa...
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(数字)9781728181875
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(纸本)9781728181882
Nowadays, data-intensive processing applications, such as multimedia, high-performance computing and safety-critical ones (e.g., in automotive) employ General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) due to their parallel processing capabilities and high performance. In these devices, multiple levels of memories are employed in GPGPUs to hide latency and increase the performance during the operation of a kernel. Moreover, modern GPGPU architectures implement cutting-edge semiconductor technologies, reducing their size and power consumption. However, some studies proved that these technologies are prone to faults during the operative life of a device, so compromising reliability. In this work, we developed functional test techniques based on parallel Software-Based Self-Test routines to test memory structures in the memory hierarchy of a GPGPU (FlexGripPlus) implementing the G80 architecture of Nvidia.
This paper investigates the impact of addition/removal of edges in a complex networked control system, for the purposes of improving its controllability, system performances or robustness to external disturbances. The...
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computer-aided analysis of biological images typically requires extensive training on large-scale annotated datasets, which is not viable in many situations. In this paper, we present GAN-DL, a Discriminator Learner b...
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