University of South Australia

About: University of South Australia is a education organization based out in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 10086 authors who have published 32587 publications receiving 913683 citations. The organization is also known as: The University of South Australia & UniSA.

H ∞ -control for Markovian jumping linear systems with parametric uncertainty

Abstract: This paper studies the problem of H∞-control for linear systems with Markovian jumping parameters The jumping parameters considered here are two separable continuous-time, discrete-state Markov processes, one appearing in the system matrices and one appearing in the control variable Our attention is focused on the design of linear state feedback controllers such that both stochastic stability and a prescribed H∞-performance are achieved We also deal with the robust H∞-control problem for linear systems with both Markovian jumping parameters and parameter uncertainties The parameter uncertainties are assumed to be real, time-varying, norm-bounded, appearing in the state matrix Both the finite-horizon and infinite-horizon cases are analyzed We show that the control problems for linear Markovian jumping systems with and without parameter uncertainties can be solved in terms of the solutions to a set of coupled differential Riccati equations for the finite-horizon case or algebraic Riccati equations for the infinite-horizon case Particularly, robust H∞-controllers are also designed when the jumping rates have parameter uncertainties

Highly Ordered Nitrogen-Rich Mesoporous Carbon Nitrides and Their Superior Performance for Sensing and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation.

Abstract: Mesoporous carbon nitrides (MCN) are fascinating materials with unique semiconducting and basic properties that are useful in many applications including photocatalysis and sensing. Most syntheses of MCN focus on creating theoretically predicted C3N4 stoichiometry with a band gap of 2.7 eV using a nano-hard templating approach with triazine-based precursors. However, the performance of the MCN in semiconducting applications is limited to the MCN framework with a small band gap, which would be linked with the addition of more N in the CN framework, but this remains a huge challenge. Here, we report a precursor with high nitrogen content, 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole, that enables the formation of new and well-ordered 3D MCN with C3N5 stoichiometry (MCN-8), which has not been predicted so far, and a low-band-gap energy (2.2 eV). This novel class of material without addition of any dopants shows not only a superior photocatalytic water-splitting performance with a total of 801 μmol of H2 under visible-light irradiation for 3 h but also excellent sensing properties for toxic acids.