Modeling & Control of Human Actuated Systems

Review of modeling electrostatically actuated microelectromechanical systems

A wide range of microelectromechanical systems (MEMSs) and devices are actuated using electrostatic forces. Multiphysics modeling is required, since coupling among different fields such as solid and fluid mechanics, thermomechanics and electromagnetism is involved. This work presents an overview of models for electrostatically actuated MEMSs. Three-dimensional nonlinear formulations for the cou...

Robust Control of Redundantly Actuated Dynamical Systems

The eigenstructure assignment scheme for robust multivariable state feedback control is extended to redundantly actuated dynamical systems. The fact that the plants that are atleast square allow for the exact assignment of an arbitrary orthonormal set of closed loop eigenvectors makes this methodology attractive for feedback controller design poorly modeled dynamical systems. For second order m...

Stochastic human fatigue modeling in production systems

The performance of human resources is affected by various factors such as mental and physical fatigue, skill, and available time in the production systems. Generally, these mentioned factors have effects on human reliability and consequently change the reliability of production systems. Fatigue is a stochastic factor that changes according to other factors such as environmental conditions, work...

Modeling SMA actuated systems based on Bouc-Wen hysteresis model and feed-forward neural network

Despite the fact that shape-memory alloy (SMA) has several mechanical advantages as it continues being used as an actuator in engineering applications, using it still remains as a challenge since it shows both non-linear and hysteretic behavior. To improve the efficiency of SMA application, it is required to do research not only on modeling it, but also on control hysteresis behavior of these m...

Modeling, Simulation and Control of Redundantly Actuated Parallel Manipulators