This paper addresses the problem of designing jerk limited timeoptimal control profiles for rest-to-rest maneuvers of flexible structures. The variation of the structure of the jerk profile as a function of the permissible jerk is studied. An optimal control problem is formulated which includes constraints to cancel the poles corresponding to the rigid body and flexible modes of the system and ...

This paper studies the optimal resource allocation in time-reservation systems. Customers arrive at a service facility and receive service in two steps; in the first step information is gathered from the customer, which is then sent to a pool of computing resources, and in the second step the information is processed after which the customer leaves the system. A central decision maker has to de...

Near-minimum-time control of flexible manipulators can be accomplished by designing a controller that tracks a reference maneuver. The control method presented here uses a near-minimum-time rigid-link reference maneuver to generate reference control torques and a Liapunov controller to make the flexible manipulator track the reference maneuver while reducing and eventually eliminating flexible ...

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This paper presents the double chain–integrator finite-time convergence in a closed loop with second-order bang–bang sliding control. The direct Lyapunov method carried out stability analysis and reaching time estimation using suitable non-smooth strong function. That is, proposed energy function is strictly positive definite, definite negative derivative. Additionally, estimates presence of ma...