of Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science OBSERVER-SIDE PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR ADAPTIVE CONTROL By Jason Nezvadovitz August 2017 Chair: Warren Dixon Major: Mechanical Engineering In adaptive control, a controller is precisely designed for a certain model of the system, but that model’s...

Statistical process adjustment (SPA) is utilised prevalently in novel manufacturing scenarios. When quality characteristics rather than internal process variables are inspected for the purpose of quality control, data with different resolutions may be collected. This paper proposes a Bayesian framework for parameter estimation when only categorical observations are available. The proposed metho...

The chemotaxis of eukaryotic cells depends both on the average concentration of the chemoattractant and on the steepness of its gradient. For the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, we test quantitatively the prediction by Ueda and Shibata [Biophys. J. 93, 11 (2007)] that the efficacy of chemotaxis depends on a single control parameter only, namely, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), determin...

The volume here presented contains the Proceedings of the International Conference on Control of Distributed Parameter Systems, held in Graz (Austria) from July 15–21, 2001. It was the one eighth in a series of conferences that began in 1982. The book includes are a broad variety of topics related to partial differential equations, ranging from abstract functional analytic framework to aspects ...

(ABSTRACT) We consider the problem of controlling a thermal convection flow by feedback. The system is governed by the Boussinesq approximation of the coupled set of Navier-Stokes and heat equations. The control is applied through Dirichlet boundary conditions. We concentrate on a two-dimensional model and use a semidiscrete Galerkin scheme for numerical computations. We construct both a linear...

This note contains a description of the concepts of spreadability and feedback spreading control (FSC) for distributed parameter systems (DPS), the approaches used until now along with applications and a list of references to works including peer-reviewed papers, communications to international meetings and theses. Distributed biophysical processes usually involve spreads in space, e.g. biologi...

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This paper provides a solution to the convergence of the parameter estimates to their true values in an ideal adaptive regulation context. The key design feature consists in the use of an asymptotically vanishing internally generated exciting sequence. 1. Introduction IN THIS paper, the following question is addressed: given a known order linear time invariant system, how does one design an ada...