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The accessible presentation of this book gives both a general view of the entire computer vision enterprise and also offers sufficient detail to be able to build useful applications. Users learn techniques that have proven to be useful by first-hand experience and a wide range of mathematical methods. A CD-ROM with every copy of the text contains source code for programming practice, color images, and illustrative movies. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this book includes essential topics that either reflect practical significance or are of theoretical importance. Topics are discussed in substantial and increasing depth. Application surveys describe numerous important application areas such as image based rendering and digital libraries. Many important algorithms broken down and illustrated in pseudo code. Appropriate for use by engineers as a comprehensive reference to the computer vision enterprise.

Computer vision : a modern approach = 计算机视觉 : 一种现代的方法

A tutorial account of variable structure control with sliding mode is presented. The purpose is to introduce in a concise manner the fundamental theory, main results, and practical applications of this powerful control system design approach. This approach is particularly attractive for the control of nonlinear systems. Prominent characteristics such as invariance, robustness, order reduction, and control chattering are discussed in detail. Methods for coping with chattering are presented. Both linear and nonlinear systems are considered. Future research areas are suggested and an extensive list of references is included. >

Variable structure control: a survey

Active filtering of electric power has now become a mature technology for harmonic and reactive power compensation in two-wire (single phase), three-wire (three phase without neutral), and four-wire (three phase with neutral) AC power networks with nonlinear loads. This paper presents a comprehensive review of active filter (AF) configurations, control strategies, selection of components, other related economic and technical considerations, and their selection for specific applications. It is aimed at providing a broad perspective on the status of AF technology to researchers and application engineers dealing with power quality issues. A list of more than 200 research publications on the subject is also appended for a quick reference.

A review of active filters for power quality improvement

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The aim of this paper is to present a review of current control techniques for three-phase voltage-source pulsewidth modulated converters. Various techniques, different in concept, have been described in two main groups: linear and nonlinear. The first includes proportional integral (stationary and synchronous) and state feedback controllers, and predictive techniques with constant switching frequency. The second comprises bang-bang (hysteresis, delta modulation) controllers and predictive controllers with on-line optimization. New trends in current control-neural networks and fuzzy-logic-based controllers-are discussed, as well. Selected oscillograms accompany the presentation in order to illustrate properties of the described controller groups.

Current control techniques for three-phase voltage-source PWM converters: a survey

Control of AC Electrical Machines: A Sliding Mode Approach

In this paper a Discrete-Time Sliding-Mode based controller design for high accuracy motion control systems is presented. The controller is designed for a general SISO system with nonlinearity and external disturbance. Closed-Loop behavior of the general system with the proposed control and Lyapunov stability is shown and the error of the closed loop system is proven to be within an o(T2). The proposed controller is applied to a stage driven by a piezo drive that is known to suffer from hysteresis nonlinearity in the control gain. Proposed SMC controller is proven to offer chattering-free motion and rejection of the disturbances represented by hysteresis and the time variation of the piezo drive parameters. As a separate idea to enhance the accuracy of the closed loop system a combination of disturbance rejection method and the SMC controller is explored and its effectiveness is experimentally demonstrated. Closed-loop experiments are presented using PID controller with and without disturbance compensation and Sliding-Mode Controller with and without disturbance compensation for the purpose of comparison.

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A Study on High Accuracy Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control

This work aims the precise control of the piezoelectric actuators that can theoretically provide unlimited motion resolution. For this purpose Sliding Mode Controller (SMC) is used. The proposed algorithm is known to have order of sampling time square and therefore faster application than DSP was required. The application of the algorithm via analog electronics is suggested. Preliminary work, simulation and experimental results are presented.

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Control of piezoelectric actuators using analog Sliding Mode Controller

Coordinated task manipulation by a group of autonomous mobile robots has received significant research effort in the last decade. Previous studies in the area revealed that one of the main problems in the area is to avoid the collisions of the robots with obstacles as well as with other members of the group. Another problem is to come up with a model for successful task manipulation. Significant research effort has accumulated on the definition of forces to generate reference trajectories for each autonomous mobile robots engaged in coordinated behavior. If the mobile robots are nonholonomic, this approach fails to guarantee successful manipulation of the task since the so-generated reference trajectories might not satisfy the nonholonomic constraint. In this work, we introduce a novel coordinated task manipulation model inclusive of an online collision avoidance algorithm. The reference trajectory for each autonomous nonholonomic mobile robot is generated online in terms of linear and angular velocity references for the robot; hence these references automatically satisfy the nonholonomic constraint. The generated reference velocities inevitably depend on the nature of the specified coordinated task. Several coordinated task examples, on the basis of a generic task, have been presented and the proposed model is verified through simulations

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Coordinated task manipulation by nonholonomic mobile robots

An advanced discrete-time chattering-free sliding mode control scheme is presented. The distinctive feature of the scheme is its robustness to different initial condition values and parameter mismatch. Nonlinear control principles will be used namely, the combined feedforward and the robust negative feedback part based on VSS controllers. In the discrete-time expression the discontinuous operation of controllers in the sliding mode has ben replaced by the continuous one. In this way the chattering of control input has been eliminated and the excitation of the dynamic system without high-frequency oscillations has been achieved. The proposed control solution is near an ideal control function in the sliding mode. Unlike other algorithms intended to avoid chattering, this nonmodel-based approach uses only the information about the distance from the sliding mode manifold to derive the control. The advantage of the proposed control scheme prevail over those conventional model-based control scheme since no precise knowledge of mathematical model is necessary. In order to implement the control it must be only known the structure of input matrix and the mean values of its parameters. The input-output linear behavior of the closed control loop is predominantly determined by the controller's gain matrix.

Asif Sabanovic

Papers

Control of AC Electrical Machines: A Sliding Mode Approach

A Study on High Accuracy Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control

Control of piezoelectric actuators using analog Sliding Mode Controller

Coordinated task manipulation by nonholonomic mobile robots

Discontinuous and continuous sliding mode motion control