Showing papers in "IFAC Proceedings Volumes in 2000"

TL;DR: A recently developed general theory for basis construction will be presented, that is a generalization of the classical Laguerre theory, particularly exploiting the property that basis function models are linearly parametrized.

TL;DR: A differential-geometric approach to the problem of fault detection and isolation for nonlinear systems and its applications in medicine and robotics is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model predictive control (NMPC) for a high-purity distillation column subject to parameter disturbances, which is based on the direct multiple shooting (DMS) method.

TL;DR: A collection of systems that are suitable for testing PID controllers and are collected from a wide range of sources are described.

TL;DR: In this paper, the application of the newly developed interconnection and damping assignment (IDA) passivity-based control (PBC) to the problem of stabilization of underactuated mechanical systems is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce tools to analyze and explore structure and other fundamental properties of an automated system such that any redundancy in the process can be fully utilized to enhance safety and availability.

TL;DR: In this paper, a more general structure for the classical PID controller is proposed by using fractional integral and differential operators, and a frequency domain approach is used to show the advantages of using these fractional PID controllers, which can be sumarized in the possibility of dealing with more general class of control problems.

TL;DR: The paper discusses the properties of several methods of combining quantitative and qualitative system information and their practical value for fault diagnosis of real process systems.

TL;DR: Current developments in the FDI theory are reviewed and the description of different fault diagnosis methods are described, including approaches using computational intelligence techniques.

TL;DR: Three optimal-tuning PID controller design schemes are presented for industrial control systems and can provide optimal PID parameters so that the desired system specifications are satisfied even in case where the system dynamics are time variant or the system operating points change.

TL;DR: In this article, a nonlinear control strategy is proposed for path following in the presence of constant but unknown currents, which takes explicitly into account the dynamics of the vehicle as well as those of a current estimator.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of transients in the flow over a wide range of operation of a propeller were analyzed and the results are essential for accurate thrust control in dynamic positioning and in underwater robotics.

TL;DR: In this article, a nonlinear model predictive control algorithm is implemented on-line to control the liquid level and temperature in a pilot plant CSTR, where an irreversible exothermic chemical reaction is simulated experimentally by steam injection.

TL;DR: A summary of tuning rules for the PID control of single input, single output (SISO) processes with time delay is provided in this paper.

TL;DR: The goal of the LOLIMOT toolbox is to provide the industrial user and the research engineer with a fast and easy-to-use software package for nonlinear system identification by reducing the number of required trial-and-error steps for identification.

TL;DR: In this paper, the robust fault detection problem using the standard H ∞ filtering formulation is studied and the minimization of the disturbance effect on the residual is formulated as a standard H∞ filtering problem and the design is solved using an algebraic Riccati equation.

TL;DR: A two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) PID controller is a 2DOF controller whose serial compensator is a PID element and its feedforward compensator (PD element) is a PD element as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a brief history of model-based ship control systems with focus on the application of nonlinear theory to ship control is presented and the most recent results on nonlinear ship control in the period 1990-2000.

TL;DR: In this paper, an identification method is developed providing estimation of both model coefficients and differentiation orders, and a modal decomposition of non-integer systems is given, also called developed modal form, from which a new identification model is defined.

TL;DR: Chronicle recognition approaches are challenging techniques for alarm correlation and diagnostic when on-line efficiency is required and the counterpart is the difficulty of acquiring and updating this expertise-based knowledge.

TL;DR: In this article, a nonlinear control strategy for path following in the presence of constant but unknown currents is proposed, which takes explicitly into account the dynamics of the vehicle as well as those of a current estimator.

TL;DR: In this case study, several identification methods are examined and used to develop MIMO models that contain seven inputs and ten outputs and the CVA model is the most accurate.

TL;DR: This work addresses the problem of tailoring theWCET of each call to a subprogram by building the WCET as an algebraic expression parameterised with some of the subprogram parameters, which allows to obtain tighter estimations of nested loop iterations.

TL;DR: A maximum-likelihood estimation method is presented which in parallel with the system transfer function also estimates a parametric noise transfer function, leading to a consistent and efficient estimator.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a formulation for a class of robust fault detection problems, and its corresponding solution approach, which makes use of robust game theoretic (H ∞ ) or risk sensitive estimators.

TL;DR: In this paper, an innovative operating concept and its design for railways, which adopts a middle course between today's road and railway traffic, is presented, which could make railways more attractive in comparison to road traffic.

TL;DR: The TRANSCEND system for fault detection and isolation in continuous systems uses qualitative reasoning methods to analyze transients caused by abrupt faults as discussed by the authors, and then uses a focused quantitative parameter estimation scheme to identify the true fault.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered the feedback control problem for a wheeled mobile robot with the kinematics of a unicycle and showed that dynamic feedback linearization can be used to design a simple control law which is valid for trajectory tracking and point stabilization.

TL;DR: In this paper, the general matching problem is solved and the matching conditions are given a geometrical formulation, which is used for simplifying and extending the method of Auckly, Kapitanski and White.

TL;DR: The CONTSID toolbox for the identification of continuous-time transfer function or state-space models for linear time-invariant SISO and MIMO systems from sampled input/output data is presented.