Browsing by Subject "Actuators"
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Adaptive LQ control with anti-windup augmentation to optimize UAV performance in autonomous soaring applications
(2008)The performance of a glider can be considerably improved by means of soaring and optimization of its trajectory. Recent advances in the area of static soaring assume known linear glider dynamics and no actuator saturation ...
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Advanced static soaring flight controls for input constrained aircraft
(2010)Control surface actuator nonlinearities are recognized as a source of significant problems in flight control system design and verification. Recently developed adaptive control design methodologies with anti-windup ...
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Automatic steering of vehicles subject to actuator saturation and delay
(2011)In automatic vehicle steering applications the demand is towards developing more efficient and robust lane detection and tracking algorithms for safe lane keeping, merging and changing. The relevant control strategies, ...
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Control techniques for a large segmented reflector
(1998)NASA has founded a project to design and construct a test-bed in the Controls and Structures Laboratory at the California State University to study the complex dynamic behavior of large segmented optical systems. The ...
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Frequency domain and dynamic game methods for actuator/sensor selection in systems with sector nonlinearities
(2001)The purpose of this note is to provide a method for placing actuators and sensors in systems with nonlinear dynamics wherein the choices for actuator and sensor locations are such that the resulting system is rendered ...
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Identification and high bandwidth control of hard disk drive servo systems based on sampled data measurements
(2007)One of the key factors that determines the track density of a hard disk drive (HDD) is the performance characteristics of the HDD servo system, the control system that positions the READ/WRITE magnetic head close to the ...
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Mixed manual/semi-automated traffic: A macroscopic analysis
(2003)The use of advanced technologies and intelligence in vehicles and infrastructure could make the current highway transportation system much more efficient. Semi-automated vehicles with the capability of automatically following ...
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Modeling and control design for a computer controlled brake system
(IEEE, 1996)In this paper we consider the problem of modeling and control of a computer controlled brake system. The brake model is developed using a series of experiments conducted on a test bench which contains the full scale brake ...
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A robust adaptive control design for gliders subject to actuator saturation nonlinearities
(2007)Range, endurance and cross-country speed of a glider can be considerably improved by efficient soaring methods. Recent static soaring research assumes known linear glider dynamics which do not change with flight conditions, ...
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Servo Control Design for a Hard Disk Drive Based on Estimated Head Position at High Sampling Rates
(2003)In this paper we use the ACORN estimator that generates estimates of the head position by processing servo burst and data sector measurements of the mean square error (MSE), to provide head position error measurements at ...
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Stabilisation with feedback control utilising packet-dropping network links
(2007)The possibility of using networks, such as the Internet, for data transmission between physically distributed sensors and actuators in a system gives rise to several new challenges in control design. An approach is discussed ...