The roll dynamics of a 5kg, 1.3 m high sounding rocket are analyzed in a vertical wind tunnel. Significant turbulence in the tunnel makes the system identification of the effective inertia, damping and asymmetry with respect to roll challenging. A novel method is developed which decouples the disturbance from the rocket frame’s intrinsic roll dynamics and allows accurate prediction of roll rate...

This paper proposes a continuous leakage location method based on the ultrasonic array sensor, which is specific to continuous gas leakage in a pressure container with an integral stiffener. This method collects the ultrasonic signals generated from the leakage hole through the piezoelectric ultrasonic sensor array, and analyzes the space-time correlation of every collected signal in the array....

Sediment transport constantly influences river and civil structures and the lack ofinformation about its exact amount makes management efforts less effective. Hence,achieving a proper procedure to estimate the sediment load in rivers is important. We usedsupport vector machine model to estimate the sediments of the Kakareza River in LorestanProvince and the results were compared with those obta...

The present paper studies the use of genetic algorithm to optimize tuning Proportional, Integral and Derivative (PID) controller. Two control criteria were considered, integral time multiplied by absolute error (ITAE), output (ITAY). variant plant tested is a first-order with delay. We aim at real implementation inside digital board, so, previous continuous approach was discretized tested; corr...

In this paper, a new collocation method, which is based on Boubaker polynomials, is introduced for the approximate solutions of a class of two-dimensional linear Fredholm integral equationsof the second kind. The properties of two-dimensional Boubaker functions are presented. The fundamental matrices of integration with the collocation points are utilized to reduce the solution of the integral ...

Quadrotor control has been noted for its trouble as the consequence of the high maneuverability, system nonlinearity and strongly coupled multivariable. This paper deals with the simulation depend on proposed controller of a quadrotor that can overcome this trouble. The mathematical model of quadrotor is determined using a Newton-Euler formulation. Fractional Order Proportional Integral Derivat...