This paper presents a novel system inversion approach to the set-point regulation of linear scalar minimum-phase systems. This approach uses closed-form expressions of cause/e!ect pairs that make possible an arbitrarily smooth transition between two given output set-points. The cause/e!ect pairs are based on the introduced concept of `transitiona polynomials. Simple optimization procedures are ...

We consider time-dependence of dynamical transport, following a recent study of the stadium billiard in which classical transmission and reflection probabilities were shown to exhibit exponential or algebraic decay depending on the choice of the lead or “hole”, raising the question of whether this feature is due to special properties of the stadium. The system considered here is much more gener...

Self-reconfiguration of robotic manipulators under joint failure can be achieved via fault-tolerance strategies. Faulttolerant manipulators are required to continue their endeffector motion with a minimum velocity jump, when failures occur to their joints. Optimal fault tolerance of the manipulators requires a framework that can map the velocity jump of the end-effector to the compensating join...

Fluidized beds are used in a variety of process industries because they provide uniform temperature distributions, low pressure drops, and high heat/mass rates. Minimum fluidization velocity is an important factor in understanding the hydrodynamic behavior of fluidized beds, and this characteristic may be modified through high frequency (sound) vibrations. The effects caused by sound wave frequ...

The objective of this study was to establish the baseline retinal hemodynamic characteristics of stratified groups of diabetic patients at increasing risk for the development of diabetic macular edema (DME). Group 1 had 50 control subjects, group 2 had 56 diabetic patients without clinically visible retinopathy, group 3 had 54 diabetic patients with microaneurysms and/or hard exudates within tw...

This paper presents an improved neural computation where scheme for kinematic control of redundant manipulators based on infinity-norm joint velocity minimization. Compared with a previous neural network approach to minimum infinity-non kinematic control, the present approach is less complex in terms of cost of architecture. The recurrent neural network explicitly minimizes the maximum componen...