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Adaptive control of a parallel robot via backstepping technique
(2006)Parallel robots have attracted more and more attention in recent years due to their kinematical and mechanical advantages. However the complicated high nonlinear model with unknown parameters and singularities make the ... -
Adaptive optimizer based on the sequential simplex method applied to the control of a thermo-mechanical pulping screening room
(2004)An adaptive optimizer is designed for control of multi-variable processes where the operating characteristics of the plant are time varying. Based on the original sequential method for static applications, the modified ... -
Asymptotic performance of M-ary signals on Rician fading diversity channels / by Hongwei Zhang.
(2007)In this thesis, we will study the average symbol error rate of M-ary signals on wireless Rician fading channels at high average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in both single-carrier and multicarrier orthogonal frequency ... -
Attitude estimation and control of a ducted fan VTOL UAV
(2007)A significant area of current research is to develop aircraft which are unmanned. More specifically, some researchers are focusing on hovering type aircraft, or vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Since these ... -
Attitude stabilization of a quadrotor aircraft
(2004)The quadrotor aircraft has seen a growing interest in the research community over the past few years, with a focus on modeling and control however. Early rotating wing aircraft pioneers designed similar four-rotor aircraft ... -
Congestion and admission control in WDM optical networks
(2006)The demand for more communication bandwidth and network resources, has pushed researchers to find faster and more reliable data communication networks. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is a promising technology to ... -
Control of flexible-link manipulator
(1998)Flexible-Iink manipulator has many advantages over classic rigid body manipulator in industrial and space applications. However, it also poses high requirements on controller design, to ensure the accurate tip position ... -
Control of heat and fluid flow in solidification processes by an inverse method
(2000)The objective of this research is to produce a control scheme by an inverse method that is capable of acting fast enough to be useful in a real-time manufacturing environment. The scheme should provide a transient boundary ... -
Control of lateral vibration of an axially moving cantilever beam using piezoelectric actuators
(2005)A typical example of an axially moving cantilever beam is flexible robotic manipulators with prism atic joints. The model governing lateral vibration of such system is time-varying. Time-varying systems pose significant ... -
Design and implementation of a tunable vibration absorber and a time-delayed vibration absorber
(2005)Includes studies of a tunable electromagnetic vibration absorber and a time-delayed vibration absorber. -
Design and modeling of a CMOS VCO using wave digital filters / by WeiBo Li.
(2007)Wave digital filters (WDFs) transform an analog network into a topologically equivalent digital structure. A natural application of WDF is the simulation of electric circuits since measurements of any desired node voltages ... -
Dynamic model and control of vehicles
(2006)In this thesis the author develops a 14 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) full-car model. The model draws from and improves upon features and setups of certain existing vehicle dynamics models. The proposed model provides a means ... -
Efficient analysis of oscillators with multiple time dimensions
(2005)Harmonic Balance (H B ) analysis is an established technique for the analysis of nonlinear circuits. In this thesis, we present a method to find the transient and steady-state behavior of oscillators based on a harmonic ... -
End-to-end shared restoration in multi-domain networks / by Zhiying Gao.
(2008)Emerging multi-service data applications require high-bandwidth high-quality connectivity across multiple network domains, each of which is generally controlled by an independent service provider. These applications ... -
Experimental evaluation of some classical and adaptive iterative learning control schemes on a 5DOF robot manipulator
(2004)In many process industries (e.g., VLSI production lines, Automotive industries, IC welding process, inspections, manipulations), robot manipulators are used to perform the same tasks repeatedly over a finite time interval. ... -
Frequency domain tuning approach for adaptive feedforward controllers
(2003)Feedforward control provides a means for compensating measurable disturbances before the process output is affected. A novel tuning strategy for tuning feedforward controllers in frequency domain is developed in this ... -
Governor control for Kakabeka Falls Generating Station
(1999)This thesis examines a specific problem of governor control on a set of hydroelectric turbines that suffer from severe wicket gate leakage. Linear modeling and the steady state behavior of each turbine is investigated ... -
Integrated mechanisms for QoS and restoration in mesh transport networks
(2007)Survivable networks have the capability to survive from the events of network components failures. The resilience mechanisms in these networks protect and restore the impaired communication paths by using spare capacity. ... -
Intelligent systems for active vibration control in flexible engineering structures / by Ji Xiaoxu.
(2008)Vibration arises in almost all moving structures. Vibration control is important to many applications such as robotic arms, aircraft wings, buildings in wind, vehicle transmission systems,to name but a few. The objective ... -
Iterative learning control for robot manipulators
(2004)When a system is performing the same task repeatedly it is, from an engineering perspective, advantageous to use the knowledge from the previous iterations of the same task in order to reduce the error on successive ...
