Modern technology offers many opportunities to do things differently and hence a key challenge for academic staff is to decide which technology or approach do they use, how do they use it and of course, why should the...
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Hidden Markov models have successfully been applied as models of discrete time series in many fields. Often, when applied in practice, the parameters of these models have to be estimated. The currently predominating i...
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This paper gives a brief survey of several ideas in the literature on how to increase student enthusiasm and engagement with learning by incorporating multimedia production into assignments. A description is given on ...
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This paper examines a new event-triggered control design approach for discrete-time linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems to reduce the data transmission of the scheduling variables and states to the controller. A pa...
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(纸本)9781467386838
This paper examines a new event-triggered control design approach for discrete-time linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems to reduce the data transmission of the scheduling variables and states to the controller. A parameter dependent state-feedback controller and an event-triggering condition are designed jointly to stabilize the closed-loop system. Then, a procedure is proposed to obtain an event-based reference tracking controller for the LPV systems such that the steady-state response of the system output tends to a desired reference signal and the required tracking performance specifications are satisfied. Sufficient conditions for the design of the event-triggered controller are obtained in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMI). Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control design approach.
Due to the difficult characterization of the propagation model, most studies on racking of mobile nodes assume the correct knowledge of the power-distance gradients or the path-loss exponents (PLEs). In this paper, we...
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There is a desire to design lightweight railway vehicle bodies for future high speed ***,suppression of structural vibration of the flexible lightweight vehicle body was attempted via use of active suspensions(convent...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509009107
There is a desire to design lightweight railway vehicle bodies for future high speed ***,suppression of structural vibration of the flexible lightweight vehicle body was attempted via use of active suspensions(conventional actuators)or by structural damping via piezoelectric actuators,with the aim being to improve the ride *** a railway vehicle the typical active suspension setup comprises front and rear suspension conventional actuators,while adding more macro-actuator elements to minimise structural vibrations can substantially impact vehicle weight and location *** this paper,we show that piezoelectric actuator control can provide complementary action to active *** control is adopted for combined active structural damping and active suspension design via Linear Quadratic Gaussian(LQG) method and modal control with skyhook damping *** side-view model of a flexible-bodied railway vehicle integrated with piezoelectric actuators and appropriate sensor outputs is derived and the placement of the piezoelectric actuators and sensors is addressed via structural *** is shown that vibrations of both the flexible modes and rigid modes are suppressed *** suggests that with the combined approach,control by both piezoelectric actuators and suspension actuators could be used in a more efficient way to address vibrations in light railway vehicle bodies.
A measurement-based statistical verification approach is developed for systems with partly unknown dynamics. Grey-box systems, which are specified as a model class, are subject to identification experiments that enabl...
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A measurement-based statistical verification approach is developed for systems with partly unknown dynamics. Grey-box systems, which are specified as a model class, are subject to identification experiments that enable accepting or rejecting system properties expressed as formulae in a linear-time logic with a given confidence. We employ a Bayesian framework for the computation of the confidence level and for the design of experiments to increase the confidence. The experiment design is formulated as a stochastic optimal control problem, which solvable via dynamic programming. Applied to linear controlsystems, this work enables efficient data-driven verification of partly-known dynamics with controllable non-determinism (inputs) and noisy output observations. A numerical case study concerning the safety of a dynamical system is used to elucidate this approach.
This paper proposes a generalized model for load frequency control (LFC) studies in a deregulated environment. The key advantage of this formulation is that it can accommodate LFC studies in a realistic environment, w...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509025923
This paper proposes a generalized model for load frequency control (LFC) studies in a deregulated environment. The key advantage of this formulation is that it can accommodate LFC studies in a realistic environment, where interconnected control areas (CAs) have different rated capacities. The significance and effectiveness of this formulation is demonstrated using a 7-area deregulated network which is a modification of the CIGRE-7 machine test system.
This paper presents a condition for global asymptotic synchronization of Lienard-type nonlinear oscillators in uniform LTI electrical networks with series R-L circuits modeling interconnections. By uniform electrical ...
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(纸本)9781467386838
This paper presents a condition for global asymptotic synchronization of Lienard-type nonlinear oscillators in uniform LTI electrical networks with series R-L circuits modeling interconnections. By uniform electrical networks, we mean that the per-unit-length impedances are identical for the interconnecting lines. We derive conditions for global asymptotic synchronization for a particular feedback architecture where the derivative of the oscillator output current supplements the innate current feedback induced by simply interconnecting the oscillator to the network. Our proof leverages a coordinate transformation to a set of differential coordinates that emphasizes signal differences and the particular form of feedback permits the formulation of a quadratic Lyapunov function for this class of networks. This approach is particularly interesting since synchronization conditions are difficult to obtain by means of quadratic Lyapunov functions when only current feedback is used and for networks composed of series R-L circuits. Our synchronization condition depends on the algebraic connectivity of the underlying network, and reiterates the conventional wisdom from Lyapunov- and passivity-based arguments that strong coupling is required to ensure synchronization.
This paper considers the problem of estimating the parameters of a signal using time-varying thresholded noisy one-bit measurements. The problem is shown to be deterministically identifiable under reasonable condition...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509021048
This paper considers the problem of estimating the parameters of a signal using time-varying thresholded noisy one-bit measurements. The problem is shown to be deterministically identifiable under reasonable conditions on the signal and thresholds. A spectral sensing application is considered, and two sparse methods are presented. In addition to the standard ℓ 1 norm based approach, a “zero-norm” approximation via the logarithm function is used, and shown to yield sparser estimates in a numerical example.
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