This paper describes a novel amphibious robot, which adopts a dual-swing-legs propulsion mechanism, proposing a new locomotion mode. The robot is called FroBot, since its structure and locomotion are similar to frogs....
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This paper describes a novel amphibious robot, which adopts a dual-swing-legs propulsion mechanism, proposing a new locomotion mode. The robot is called FroBot, since its structure and locomotion are similar to frogs. Our inspiration comes from the frog scooter and breaststroke. Based on its swing leg mechanism, an unusual universal wheel structure is used to generate propulsion on land, while a pair of flexible caudal fins functions like the foot flippers of a frog to generate similar propulsion underwater. On the basis of the prototype design and the dynamic model of the robot, some locomotion control simulations and experiments were conducted for the purpose of adjusting the parameters that affect the propulsion of the robot. Finally, a series of underwater experiments were performed to verify the design feasibility of FroBot and the rationality of the control algorithm.
In this work,a finite-horizon optimal control problem for first-order plus time delay(FOPTD) processes is *** show that if the control horizon is greater than three and the prediction horizon is great than the control...
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In this work,a finite-horizon optimal control problem for first-order plus time delay(FOPTD) processes is *** show that if the control horizon is greater than three and the prediction horizon is great than the control horizon plus the time delay in discrete time,the optimal controller is not affected by either of the two ***,under these conditions,the controller parameters are explicitly calculated,the closed-loop system is shown to be stable,and the controller is *** problem considered is related to the results on linear quadratic regulation of linear systems with time delays;however,the detailed parameterization of the state-space model introduced by the FOPTD process provides an additional opportunity to investigate the exact controller structure and properties(e.g.,the locations of the closed-loop poles),which are also the major difficulties encountered and overcome in this *** problem is motivated from phenomena experienced in designing industrial model predictive control(MPC) tuning algorithms,and extensive numerical examples indicate that the proposed results speed up the MPC autotuning algorithms by 70%.
Hydro-viscous speed clutch(HVC) is a central control element of the driver system. Because of nonlinearities and hysteresis of the clutch, the setting of control parameters has a significant impact on the performance ...
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Hydro-viscous speed clutch(HVC) is a central control element of the driver system. Because of nonlinearities and hysteresis of the clutch, the setting of control parameters has a significant impact on the performance of the speed control system. This paper studies the HVC of a vehicle temperature control system, and analyzes the parameters tuning method of a PID controller for the closed-loop control system. By employing a two-storey optimized control framework, the resulting model from identification can be used to complete the control parameters auto-tuning. Simulation and experimental results have showed that this auto-tuning method can obtain a group of parameters in terms of a desired performance index, which guarantees the balance of dynamic characteristics, stability and anti-jamming in closed-loop system.
Research on multi-agent systems has attracted much attention in the past two decades, and numerous results have been obtained. Its widespread applications include spacecraft,mobile robots, sensor networks, etc. Most p...
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Research on multi-agent systems has attracted much attention in the past two decades, and numerous results have been obtained. Its widespread applications include spacecraft,mobile robots, sensor networks, etc. Most previous research works on multi-agent systems studied the first- and second-order dynamics. However, in engineering, many systems are modeled by higher-order dynamics. This paper reviews the major results and progress in distributed high-order multi-agent *** the review, a short discussion section is included to summarize the existing research and propose several promising research directions along with some open problems that are deemed important for further investigations.
In this work, a state estimation problem is considered for a hidden Markov model subject to event-based sensor measurement updates sent through a reliable communication channel. The change of probability approach is u...
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(纸本)9781467374439
In this work, a state estimation problem is considered for a hidden Markov model subject to event-based sensor measurement updates sent through a reliable communication channel. The change of probability approach is utilized to consider the estimation problem, and an analytical expression for the probability distributions of the states conditioned on all the past hybrid point- and set-valued measurement information caused by the event-triggering scheme is obtained. Also, it is shown that the scenario with a lossy channel, but without the event-trigger, can be treated as a special case of the reliable channel results,and thus can be solved by applying the proposed results.
Hydro-viscous speed clutch (HVC) is a central control element of the driver system. Because of nonlinearities and hysteresis of the clutch, the setting of control parameters has a significant impact on the performance...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479987719
Hydro-viscous speed clutch (HVC) is a central control element of the driver system. Because of nonlinearities and hysteresis of the clutch, the setting of control parameters has a significant impact on the performance of the speed control system. This paper studies the HVC of a vehicle temperature control system, and analyzes the parameters tuning method of a PID controller for the closed-loop control system. By employing a two-storey optimized control framework, the resulting model from identification can be used to complete the control parameters auto-tuning. Simulation and experimental results have showed that this auto-tuning method can obtain a group of parameters in terms of a desired performance index, which guarantees the balance of dynamic characteristics, stability and anti-jamming in closed-loop system.
By taking into account the hits-density imaging technique that has been introduced by authors' previous publications, the acoustic emission bursts emitted from the automatic-gauge-control hydraulic cylinder under ...
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By taking into account the hits-density imaging technique that has been introduced by authors' previous publications, the acoustic emission bursts emitted from the automatic-gauge-control hydraulic cylinder under normal loading and early-stage vibration were investigated. First, six acoustic emission descriptors that showed significance regarding the cumulative probability distribution were visualised, followed by the reconstruction of the hits-density images using these features;Through the visual examination of the hits-density images regarding the cylinders' normal loading and early-stage vibration, apparent visual differences between normal and early-stage vibration under the same loading can be observed;By projecting the hits-density images onto the principal component space, a trajectory which represents the condition developments was observed, which shows a visual-based resolution for dealing with vast transient bursts data reduction,reconstruction and visualisation.
Considering the uncertainties parameters and unknown dynamics of permanent-magnet synchronous motors in real applications,a composite controller strategy for electromechanical actuator is proposed in this *** composit...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479947249
Considering the uncertainties parameters and unknown dynamics of permanent-magnet synchronous motors in real applications,a composite controller strategy for electromechanical actuator is proposed in this *** composite strategy consists of a disturbances observer based on linear extended state observer that suppresses disturbances by feedforward compensation and a Lyapunov stability-based position controller.A non-singular terminal sliding mode position controller is used here due to its good performance,under which state errors would converge to zero in finite ***,special forms of load torque,hinge moment,and sinusoidal torque disturbances have been taken into consideration in this *** proposed control strategy is verified via *** performance with respect to position tracking and robustness to load disturbances and parametric uncertainties of the motor have been demonstrated.
Special Re-use TDMA(STDMA) emerges as a promising channel access technique for providing Quality of Service(QoS) guarantees in multi-hop ad Hoc networks such as community mesh and sensor networks. The contention-free ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479947249
Special Re-use TDMA(STDMA) emerges as a promising channel access technique for providing Quality of Service(QoS) guarantees in multi-hop ad Hoc networks such as community mesh and sensor networks. The contention-free channel access combined with special reuse of the channel provides significant benefits in the energy/throughput trade-off. However, the protocol may introduce scheduling delay if, on the same path, an outbound link on a router is scheduled to transmit before an inbound link on that router. The total scheduling delay can be quite large since it accumulates at every hop on a path. This paper presents a method to solve this problem to improve the performance of the network system. Compared to the origin STDMA protocol, simulation results present us the superior performance of the proposed algorithm.
This paper presents a novel maximum power point(MPP) tracking(MPPT) method to increase photovoltaic(PV)system performance during partially shaded conditions(PSCs). The method is based on voltage scanning method. Volta...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479947249
This paper presents a novel maximum power point(MPP) tracking(MPPT) method to increase photovoltaic(PV)system performance during partially shaded conditions(PSCs). The method is based on voltage scanning method. Voltage band method and restricted voltage scanning method is used to increase the scanning speed. A method is proposed to determine whether partial shading occurs. The main advantage of the proposed method is the ability to search the global peak *** results shows the good performance of proposed method.
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