Browsing by Subject "Adaptive control systems"

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      Adaptive bounding techniques for stable neural control systems 

      Polycarpou, Marios M.; Ioannou, Petros A. (IEEE, 1995)
      This paper considers the design of stable adaptive neural controllers for uncertain nonlinear dynamical systems with unknown nonlinearities. The Lyapunov synthesis approach is used to develop state-feedback adaptive control ...
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      Adaptive congestion control in ATM based networks: Quality of service and high utilisation 

      Pitsillides, Andreas; Lambert, J. (1997)
      To improve network utilisation and robustness for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks there is increasing evidence that reactive congestion controls are necessary. However the large bandwidth-delay product and the ...
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      Adaptive control design for cargo ship steering with limited rudder angle 

      Kahveci, N. E.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2009)
      Marine transportation offers a cost-effective and viable alternative to cargo aircraft, trains, and trucks in general. Traffic control in congested waterways has recently become a challenging task demanding higher accuracy ...
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      Adaptive control for a class of large scale non-linear systems 

      Xu, H.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Mirmirani, M. D. (2005)
      The design of stabilizing controllers for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) non-linear plants with unknown non-linearities is a challenging problem. The inability to identify the non-linearities on-line or off-line accurately ...
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      Adaptive control of a class of slowly time varying systems with modeling uncertainties 

      Fidan, B.; Zhang, Y.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2005)
      In a recent work, a new linear adaptive controller based on certainty-equivalence and backstepping design, which promises a level of transient and asymptotic performance comparable to that of the tuning functions adaptive ...
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      Adaptive control of an aeroelastic airbreathing hypersonic cruise vehicle 

      Kuipers, M.; Mirmirani, M.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Huo, Y. (2007)
      This paper describes an adaptive linear quadratic (ALQ) altitude and velocity tracking control algorithm for the longitudinal model of a generic airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicle. The vehicle design is inspired by a ...
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      Adaptive control of linear time varying systems 

      Zhang, Youping; Ioannou, Petros A. (1996)
      A new class of adaptive controllers for linear time varying systems is designed and analyzed using nonlinear design techniques and the certainty-equivalence approach. It is established that this new class of controllers ...
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      Adaptive LQ control with anti-windup augmentation to optimize UAV performance in autonomous soaring applications 

      Kahveci, N. E.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Mirmirani, M. D. (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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      Adaptive mixing control with multiple estimators 

      Baldi, S.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Kosmatopoulos, E. B. (2012)
      A recently proposed adaptive control scheme with mixing involves the use of precalculated candidate controllers whose output is weighted on the basis of the parameter estimates generated by an online parameter estimator. ...
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      Adaptive mode-suppression and disturbance-rejection scheme with application to disk drives 

      Levin, J.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2009)
      The goal of a track-following controller for a disk drive is to maintain as close to perfect tracking as possible. Better tracking allows for more data to be stored on a single disk. There are several factors which make ...
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      Adaptive notch filter using real-time parameter estimation 

      Levin, J.; Pérez-Arancibia, N. O.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2011)
      The control of flexible systems is often difficult due to the exact frequencies of the elastic modes being hard to identify. These flexible modes may change over time, or vary between units of the same system. The variation ...
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      Adaptive sliding mode control design for a hypersonic flight vehicle 

      Xu, H.; Mirmirani, M. D.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2004)
      A multi-input/multi-output adaptive sliding controller is designed and analyzed for the longitudinal dynamics of a generic hypersonic air vehicle. This vehicle model is nonlinear, multivariable, and unstable and includes ...
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      Adaptive sliding mode control of a hypersonic flight vehicle 

      Xu, H.; Leung, P.; Mirmirani, M.; Boussalis, Helen R.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2001)
      A Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) adaptive sliding controller is designed and analyzed for the longitudinal dynamics of a generic hypersonic air vehicle. This vehicle model is highly nonlinear, multivariable, unstable and ...
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      Adaptive steering control for uncertain ship dynamics and stability analysis 

      Kahveci, N. E.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2013)
      Marine transportation offers a cost-effective and viable alternative to cargo aircraft, trains, and trucks in general. Traffic control in congested waterways has recently become a challenging task demanding higher accuracy ...
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      Adaptive suppression of periodic disturbances in MIMO linear systems 

      Jafari, S.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2013)
      Suppression of unknown periodic disturbances with time-varying characteristics has many industrial applications. The purpose of this paper is to propose a robust adaptive control scheme to suppress noise-corrupted disturbances ...
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      Adaptive throttle control for speed tracking 

      Xu, Z.; Ioannou, Petros A. (1994)
      Electronic throttle control is an important part of every advanced vehicle control system. In this paper we design an adaptive control for electronic throttle that achieves good tracking of arbitrary constant speed commands ...
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      Adaptive vehicle following control system with variable time headways 

      Zhang, J.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2005)
      In this paper, we design a vehicle following control system with variable time headways, using adaptive control design methodology. It is shown that the designed vehicle following control system guarantees closed-loop ...
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      Advanced static soaring flight controls for input constrained aircraft 

      Kahveci, N. E.; Ioannou, Petros A. (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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      Aircraft dynamics with input rate constraints: An adaptive flight control application 

      Kahveci, N. E.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2009)
      Magnitude and rate limitations imposed on the input signal in control systems can be handled using antiwindup compensator design procedures with near-optimal system performance guarantees in case the system experiences ...
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      Backstepping Control of Linear Time-Varying Systems with Known and Unknown Parameters 

      Zhang, Y.; Fidan, B.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2003)
      The backstepping control design procedure has been used to develop stabilizing controllers for time invariant plants that are linear or belong to some class of nonlinear systems. The use of such a procedure to design ...