Showing papers in "IFAC Proceedings Volumes in 2013"

TL;DR: In this article, a nonlinear control protocol which ensures a finite-time convergence is proposed, where the communication topology is defined by a weighted undirected graph and the agents are represented by integrators.

TL;DR: In this article, an overview on an automated truck platoon that has been developed within a national ITS project named Energy ITS is presented, which aims at energy saving and global warming prevention with ITS technologies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the principles of predictive manufacturing system as a strategy to allow manufacturing industry to increase competitiveness through a highly transparent and worry-free manufacturing process, as well as an analytic framework how it can be implemented using a coupled-model approach.

TL;DR: In this article, two feedback control laws are derived from Partial Differential Equations (PDE) models capturing the main features of the so-called stick-slip phenomenon in oil well drilling systems.

TL;DR: Vehicle platooning has in recent years become an important research field for thevehicle industry as mentioned in this paper by establishing a platoon of heavy duty vehicles, the fuel consumption can be reduced for the followe

TL;DR: In this article, a new model of opinion dynamics in social networks is proposed, where agents asynchronously interact in pairs, and these pairs are chosen according to a random process: following recent literature, they refer to this communication model as gossiping.

TL;DR: This companion paper shows that the convex infinite dimensional linear programming approach to approximating the region of attraction (ROA) of polynomial dynamical systems subject to compact basic semialgebraic state constraints is flexible enough to be modified so as to generate a hierarchy ofPolynomial inner (i.e. interior) approximations of the ROA with similar convergence guarantees.

TL;DR: This tutorial paper explains how FRIT can achieve a desired property with only one-shot experiment, and introduces the data-driven approach to simultaneous attainment of model and controller in the IMC architecture.

TL;DR: This paper describes an extremely inexpensive, straightforward and surprisingly powerful platform for implementation of real-time control algorithms and further bridges the gap between the virtual and physical worlds as it is tightly connected to PIDlab.com and Contlab.eu portals.

TL;DR: A definition of differential passivity is proposed, based on the geometric framework of the prolongation of a nonlinear system in Crouch, van der Schaft (1987), and the ramifications of this definition are explored.

TL;DR: In this article, a control framework for obstacle avoidance and stability control using safe driving envelopes is presented, where one envelope is defined by the vehicle handling limits and the other is based on spatial limitations imposed by the environment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an extension of dissipativity, named differential dissipativity by lifting storage functions and supply rates to the tangent bundle, which leads to a natural formulation of differential passivity when restricting to quadratic supply rates.

TL;DR: The conservatism induced by the Jensen's inequality is analyzed and a wide class of new parametrized inequalities are proposed based on an extensive use of Wirtinger inequality which has been recently introduced in Liu and Fridman and Seuret and Gouaisbaut for stability analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, an energy management strategy for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and plug-in hybrid EVs (PHEV) taking into account battery health through an additional soft constraint on battery internal temperature, considered as one of the prime factors influencing battery aging.

TL;DR: This present work includes hierarchical structure, fuzzy and de-fuzzy set theory following this utilization index is achieved for six parameter included in this study.

TL;DR: In this paper difficulties of numerical analysis related to the existence of hidden oscillations in the aircraft control system are demonstrated.

TL;DR: This paper proposes an observer structure with a pre-observer or internal model augmented by an equivariant innovation term that leads to autonomous error evolution and a control Lyapunov function construction is used to design the observer innovation.

TL;DR: AlTARica 3.0 improves significantly the expressive power of AltaRica Data-Flow without decreasing the efficiency of assessment algorithms.

TL;DR: In this paper, methods to construct Bayesian networks for RCA with a knowledge-based and a machine learning approach are presented and an architecture to combine both approaches is proposed.

TL;DR: This work investigates linear programming relaxations to synthesize Lyapunov functions that establish the stability of a given system over a bounded region and discovers functions that are more readily useful inside symbolic verification tools for proving the correctness of control systems.

TL;DR: A framework for motion and hierarchical task planning which allows the manipulator to pick apples in the orchard is introduced and real-time tests show that the harvesting task is accomplished with assured communication between sensing, planning and executing.

TL;DR: An overview of the additive manufacturing area, as known as rapid prototyping and more recently as 3D printing, and its expected impact in logistics is presented in this paper, where AM processes are classified in various categories and the most important processes are highlighted in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Model Predictive Control framework for real-time irrigation scheduling is proposed to take into account common operational constraints, including limitations on water availability as well as practical limits on the maximum or minimum amount of water that should be applied.

TL;DR: This work proposes a radically new method for identification of robot joint model parameters, based on clamping of the robot to a rigid environment, which eliminates the need for expensive measurement equipment, and the internal sensors of the robots give sufficient feedback.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the problem of synthesizing a stabilizing event-triggered controller based on an approximate model of the slow dynamics given by singular perturbation theory when the fast one is stable.

TL;DR: The Implicit Lyapunov Function (ILF) method for finite-time stability analysis is introduced and the new high order sliding mode (HOSM) control is derived as a particular case of the developed finite- time control algorithm.

TL;DR: The recursive RANSAC (RRANSAC) algorithm is developed to solve the inherent data association problem and recursively estimate the parameters of multiple signals without prior knowledge of the number of true signals.

TL;DR: A Simulink lab practice using Arduino as low cost hardware and the empirical method of Ziegler-Nichols for adjust a PID controller, testing this controller over the experimental plant is described.

TL;DR: In this article, a low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation (LP-EGR) mass flow rate estimation method and a robust air mass fraction observer for a Diesel engine with dual-loop EGR system are presented.

TL;DR: This paper proposes a feedback which steers a single-integrator system to the set of saddle points of the Lagrangian associated to the convex optimization problem, and proves practical uniform asymptotic stability of the setof saddle points for the extremum seeking system for strictly convex as well as linear programs.