Publisher Correction: Robust design from systems physics

A Robust Control Design Technique for Discrete-Time Systems

A robust state feedback design subject to placement of the closed loop eigenvalues in a prescribed region of unit circle is presented. Quantitative measures of robustness and disturbance rejection are investigated. A stochastic optimization algorithm is used to effect trade-off between the free design parameters and to accomplish all the design criteria. A numerical example is given to illustra...

Dissipative Systems: From Physics to Robust Nonlinear Control

In this paper we explore connections between the underlying physics of dissipative systems and nonlinear robust control. In particular, we concentrate on the problem of stabilizing stationary solutions of nonlinear dissipative systems with states distributed in space. Dissipative systems are equipped with an entropy function which we employ to relate dissipation with the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman...

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An approach to fault detection and correction in design of systems using of Turbo ‎codes‎

We present an approach to design of fault tolerant computing systems. In this paper, a technique is employed that enable the combination of several codes, in order to obtain flexibility in the design of error correcting codes. Code combining techniques are very effective, which one of these codes are turbo codes. The Algorithm-based fault tolerance techniques that to detect errors rely on the c...