In a multivariable servomechanism design, it is required that the output vector tracks a certain reference vector while satisfying some desired transient specifications, for this purpose a 2DOF control law consisting of state feedback gain and feedforward scaling gain is proposed. The control law is designed using block pole placement technique by assigning a set of desired Block poles in diffe...

Abstract: The decentralized robust servomechanism problem, which is to design decentralized stabilizing controllers such that each decentralized output robustly tracks a given reference signal in the presence of certain disturbances, is considered for linear time-invariant time-delay systems of neutral type with discrete delays. The reference signals and the disturbance are assumed to satisfy a...

This paper is written as a motivation for the students who are beginning to study the control engineering. Therefore, the below mentioned references are introduced with regard to this fact. The paper shortly presents the procedure of the control design, including a description of a system, an identification of its parameters, a simple and an advanced controller design. The controller design pro...

Pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) are becoming more commonly used as actuators in modern robotics. The most made and common type of these artificial muscles in use is the McKibben artificial muscle that was developed in 1950’s. This paper presents the geometric model of PAM and different Matlab models for pneumatic artificial muscles. The aim of our models is to relate the pressure and length...

The utilization of pneumatic muscles in various industrial applications is still in an early phase, due to the relative newness of these components. In this paper the authors present results of the ongoing theoretical and experimental research on the operational behaviour of pneumatic muscles. Information is presented concerning muscle structure, as well as data on the generated forces, positio...

Fault diagnosis of pneumatic system of automatic production line is studied in this paper. A fuzzy neural network fault diagnosis expert system and pneumatic circuit fault diagnosis instrument are designed. The experiment device is built as well. In the end some experiments are done, whose results show that the expert system using fuzzy neural network can diagnose fast and truly fault of pneuma...

Pneumatic muscles are innovative tensile actuators consisting of a fiber-reinforced vulcanised rubber tubing with appropriate connectors at both ends. The working principle is based on a rhombical fibre structure that leads to a muscle contraction in longitudinal direction when the pneumatic muscle is filled with compressed air. This contraction can be used for actuation purposes. Pneumatic mus...

Background: Among various intracorporeal lithotripters, pneumatic lithotripter has become the widely used tool for the treatment of urinary stones. Recently the holmium: YAG laser has been used with a wide range of potential urological applications, including intracorporeal lithotripsy of urinary calculi. Purpose: Compare the effectiveness and complications of treatment for ureteric stones betw...