Final report on AFOSR FA 9550 - 07 - 1 - 0426 - entitled Novel Mathematical and Computational Techniques for Robust Uncertainty Quantification

AFOSR Grant FA 9550 - 04 - 1 - 0151 Final Performance Report Period Covered

Optimization Techniques for Clustering , Connectivity , and Flow Problems in Complex Networks FA 9550 - 08 - 1 - 0483 FA 9550 -

This project develops network-based optimization methods for solving problems arising in complex system analysis and wireless networking applications. The study of complex systems is of utmost importance for a number of diverse areas of science, engineering and society, including biochemistry, social sciences, epidemiology, transportation, and telecommunications. The project makes contributions...

Adaptive RBF network control for robot manipulators

TThe uncertainty estimation and compensation are challenging problems for the robust control of robot manipulators which are complex systems. This paper presents a novel decentralized model-free robust controller for electrically driven robot manipulators. As a novelty, the proposed controller employs a simple Gaussian Radial-Basis-Function Network as an uncertainty estimator. The proposed netw...

Advanced Computational Techniques for Materials - by - Design Afosr Contract

Email: [email protected], Tel: (607) 255 – 9104 URL: http://mpdc.mae.cornell.edu/ Abstract The objective of this work is to address a number of mathematical and computational issues critical to the development of a robust multi-length scale and multi-stage deformation process design simulator for the control of microstructure-sensitive properties in aircraft manufacturing applications. As par...

AFOSR Grant FA 9550 - 05 - 1 - 0401 “ Control and Information Architecture for Coordinated Networked Systems ” Principal Investigator :

A unifying framework for the design and operation of networked coordinated systems has been researched with developments focusing on application in the management of autonomous vehicles which are subject to large external disturbances, such as wind gusts. The benchmark problem is the use of intervehicle communication and active control to effect collision avoidance in multi-vehicle systems with...